Director Shareholding

Legal & General Group PLC
1 October 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 October 2001 each executive
director chose to contribute to purchase 88 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 143p per share.

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

C. R. R. Avery                                366,907
G. J. Hoskin                                  309,935
A. W. Palmer                                  513,833
R. A. Phipps                                  900,570
D. J. Prosser                                 2,863,448
D. Rough                                      1,189,237