Director Shareholding

Legal & General Group PLC
3 April 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 April 2002 each executive director chose
to contribute to purchase 76 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 163.25p per share.

In addition, on 2 April 2002 C R R Avery an Executive Director of Group, was
granted options under the Group's Savings Related Share Option Scheme (1999)
over 14,449 ordinary shares of 2.5p each in the Group at a price of 124.4p per
share. The contract term was for seven years.

Following these awards, the executive directors' current beneficial holdings in
the Group now stand at:
C. R. R. Avery                  383,226
T. J. Breedon                   577,739
G. J. Hoskin                    310,584
A.W. Palmer                     514,392
R. A. Phipps                    901,248
D. J. Prosser                   2,864,007



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