Director Shareholding

Legal & General Group PLC
2 July 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 July 2002 each executive director chose
to contribute to purchase 96 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 15 matching shares. The shares were purchased at a
price of 130.5p per share.

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

C. R. R. Avery                  436,761
T. J. Breedon                   582,663
G. J. Hoskin                    331,668
A.W. Palmer                     1,010,666
R. A. Phipps                    991,296
D. J. Prosser                   3,115,375



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