Director Shareholding

Legal & General Group PLC
02 December 2004



Legal & General Group Plc ('Group')

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

                                Partnership Shares

C. R. R. Avery                  116
T. J. Breedon                   116
A. W. Palmer                    116
R. A. Phipps                    116
J. B. Pollock                   116
D. J. Prosser                   116

The Group matched these shares, on a one-to-one basis, up to £20 per month.
Accordingly, each executive director received 18 matching shares. The shares
were purchased at a price of 107.75p 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:-

                                 Shares          Shares in schemes or        Options           Total beneficial
                                                        plans                                      interests
        Name

C. R. R. Avery                     285,534                  215,802           272,836                   774,172
T. J. Breedon                      673,150                  235,974            90,175                   999,299
A. W. Palmer                       393,575                  298,807         1,494,107                 2,186,489
R. A. Phipps                       769,978                  331,400           400,187                 1,501,565
J. B. Pollock                      174,149                  115,438            30,408                   319,995
D. J. Prosser                    1,997,360                1,180,757         1,527,944                 4,706,061

Non Executive Directors' purchases

On 1 December 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 107.50p per share.

F. A. Heaton                        1,351
B. C. Hodson                        1,351
R. J. Margetts                      6,812
J. B. Morgans                       1,806
R. H. Schmitz                       1,351
H. E. Staunton                      1,351
J. M. Strachan                      1,351
D. A. Walker                        1,806

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

F. A. Heaton                       47,415
B. C. Hodson                       47,502
R. J. Margetts                    305,292
J. B. Morgans                      86,736
R. H. Schmitz                      54,776
H. E. Staunton                     60,365
J. M. Strachan                     30,238
D. A. Walker                      126,447





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