Director Shareholding

Legal & General Group PLC
05 May 2004

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 4 May 2004 each executive director chose
to contribute to purchase the following partnership shares:

                                Partnership Shares
C. R. R. Avery                  134
T. J. Breedon                   134
A.W. Palmer                     134
R. A. Phipps                    134
J. B. Pollock                   134
D. J. Prosser                   134

The Group matched these shares, on a one-to-one basis, up to £20 per month.
Accordingly, each executive director received 21 matching shares. The shares
were purchased at a price of 93.5p per share.

Following these awards, the executive directors' current beneficial holdings in
the Group now stand at:
C. R. R. Avery                  755,699
T. J. Breedon                   1,006.572
A.W. Palmer                     2,184,979
R. A. Phipps                    1,504,708
J. B. Pollock                   275,063
D. J. Prosser                   4,712,706

Non Executive Directors' purchases

On 4 May 2004 the following non-executive directors of Legal & General Group Plc
('Group') purchased the following ordinary shares of 2.5p each ('shares') in
Group at a price of 93.75p per share.

F. A. Heaton                        1,549
B. C. Hodson                        1,549
R. J. Margetts                      3,115
J. B. Morgans                       1,549
T. C. Parker                        1,549
Dr. R. H. Schmitz                   1,549
J. M. Strachan                      1,549
Sir David Walker                    1,549

Following these awards, the non-executive directors' current beneficial holdings
in Group now stand at:
F. A. Heaton                       37,052
B. C. Hodson                       37,137
J. B. Morgans                      73,543
R. J. Margetts                    250,951
T. C. Parker                       32,482
Dr. R. H. Schmitz                  44,411
J. M. Strachan                     19,571
Sir David Walker                  110,985


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