Director Shareholding

Legal & General Group PLC
3 July 2001

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

In common with all eligible employees, each of the executive directors of
Legal & General Group Plc ('Group') have been invited to apply for partnership
shares under the Plan on a monthly basis. On 2 July 2001 each executive
director chose to contribute to purchase 77 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 163p per share.

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

C. R. R. Avery                                                          366,482
G. J. Hoskin                                                            317,510
A. W. Palmer                                                            513,408
R. A. Phipps                                                            888,145
D. J. Prosser                                                         2,863,023
D. Rough                                                              1,188,812