Director Shareholding

Legal & General Group PLC
4 March 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 1 March 2002 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 13 matching shares. The shares were purchased at a
price of 153.5p per share.

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


C. R. R. Avery                  368,689
T. J. Breedon                   577,651
G. J. Hoskin                    310,496
A.W. Palmer                     514,304
R. A. Phipps                    901,160
D. J. Prosser                   2,863,919







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