Director Shareholding

Legal & General Group PLC
2 November 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 1 November 2001 each executive
director chose to contribute to purchase 83 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 13 matching shares. The shares
were purchased at a price of 149.75p per share.

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

C. R. R. Avery      368,314

G. J. Hoskin        310,121

 A. W. Palmer       513,929

R. A. Phipps        900,785

D. J. Prosser     2,863,544

D. Rough          1,189,375