Director Shareholding

Legal & General Group PLC
6 June 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 5 June 2002 each executive director chose
to contribute to purchase 85 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 147.5p per share.

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

C. R. R. Avery                  436,650

T. J. Breedon                   582,552

G. J. Hoskin                    331,531

A.W. Palmer                     1,010,555

R. A. Phipps                    991,185

D. J. Prosser                   3,115,264


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