Director Shareholding

Legal & General Group PLC
2 January 2002

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 January 2002 each executive
director chose to contribute to purchase 79 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 158p per share.

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

C. R. R. Avery                                      368,501

T. J. Breedon                                       408,682

G. J. Hoskin                                        310,308

A.W. Palmer                                         514,116

R. A. Phipps                                        900,972

D. J. Prosser                                       2,863,731