Director Shareholding

Legal & General Group PLC
4 December 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 3 December 2001 each executive
director chose to contribute to purchase 82 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 14 matching shares. The shares
were purchased at a price of 152.5p per share.

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

C. R. R. Avery                                      368,410
G. J. Hoskin                                        310,217
A.W. Palmer                                         514,025
R. A. Phipps                                        900,881
D. J. Prosser                                       2,863,640
D. Rough                                            1,189,471