Director Shareholding

Legal & General Group PLC
02 September 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 1 September 2004 each executive director
chose to contribute to purchase the following partnership shares:

                                Partnership Shares

C. R. R. Avery                  124
T. J. Breedon                   124
A. W. Palmer                    124
R. A. Phipps                    124
J. B. Pollock                   124
D. J. Prosser                   124

The Group matched these shares, on a one-to-one basis, up to £20 per month.
Accordingly, each executive director received 20 matching shares. The shares
were purchased at a price of 101.25p per share.

Following these awards, the executive directors have beneficial interests in the
shares of Legal & General Group Plc (comprising shares, shares held by trustees
within share schemes or plans and share options) as set out below:-

 
Name                Shares     Shares in schemes     Options   Total beneficial 
                                   or plans                      interests

C. R. R. Avery     279,955       215,229             272,836       768,020
T. J. Breedon      673,150       235,401              90,175       998,726
A. W. Palmer       393,575       298,234           1,494,107     2,185,916
R. A. Phipps       769,978       330,827             397,694     1,498,499
J. B. Pollock      174,149       114,865              30,408       319,422
D. J. Prosser    1,997,360     1,180,184           1,527,944     4,705,488



Non Executive Directors' purchases

On 1 September 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 100.75p per share.
F. A. Heaton                        1,441
B. C. Hodson                        1,441
R. J. Margetts                      2,898
J. B. Morgans                       1,441
R. H. Schmitz                       1,441
D. A. Walker                        1,441
H. E. Staunton                      1,441
J. M. Strachan                      1,441

Following these awards, the non-executive directors' current beneficial
interests in the Group now stand at:
F. A. Heaton                       43,159
B. C. Hodson                       43,246
R. J. Margetts                    283,834
J. B. Morgans                      81,046
R. H. Schmitz                      50,520
D. A. Walker                      118,889
H. E. Staunton                     56,109
J. M. Strachan                     25,982


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