Director Shareholding

Legal & General Group PLC
02 August 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 August 2002 each executive director
chose to contribute to purchase 105 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 17 matching shares. The shares were purchased
at a price of 118.75p per share.

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

C. R. R. Avery                  436,883
T. J. Breedon                   582,785
G. J. Hoskin                    331,966
A.W. Palmer                     1,010,788
R. A. Phipps                    991,728
D. J. Prosser                   3,115,497


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