Director Shareholding

Legal & General Group PLC
1 August 2001

Legal & General Group Employee Share Plan ('the Plan')

In common with all eligible employees, each of the executives directors of
Legal & General Group Plc ('Group') have been invited to apply for partnership
shares under the Plan on a monthly basis. On 1 August 2001 each executive
director chose to contribute to purchase 75 partnership shares in the Group.
The Group matched these shares on a one to one basis up to £20 per month.
Accordingly, each executive director received 12 matching shares. The shares
were purchased at a price of 166.75p per share.

Following these awards, the executive directors' current beneficial holdings
in Group now stand at:

C. R. R. Avery                                366,569

G. J. Hoskin                                  317,597

A. W. Palmer                                  513,495

R. A. Phipps                                  888,232

D. J. Prosser                                 2,863,110

D. Rough                                      1,188,899