Director Shareholding

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

                                Partnership Shares
C. R. R. Avery                  126
T. J. Breedon                   126
A. W. Palmer                    125
R. A. Phipps                    126
J. B. Pollock                   126
D. J. Prosser                   126

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 99.25p 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:-

                             Shares          Shares in schemes or        Options          Total beneficial
                                                    plans                                     interests
        Name
C. R. R. Avery                     285,534                  215,668           272,836                   774,038
T. J. Breedon                      673,150                  235,840            90,175                   999,165
A. W. Palmer                       393,575                  298,673         1,494,107                 2,186,355
R. A. Phipps                       769,978                  331,266           400,187                 1,501,431
J. B. Pollock                      174,149                  115,304            30,408                   319,861
D. J. Prosser                    1,997,360                1,180,623         1,527,944                 4,705,927

Non Executive Directors' purchases

On 1 November 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 99.50p per share.

F. A. Heaton                        1,460
B. C. Hodson                        1,460
R. J. Margetts                      7,360
J. B. Morgans                       1,952
R. H. Schmitz                       1,460
H. E. Staunton                      1,460
J. M. Strachan                      1,460
D. A. Walker                        1,952

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

F. A. Heaton                       46,064
B. C. Hodson                       46,151
R. J. Margetts                    298,480
J. B. Morgans                      84,930
R. H. Schmitz                      53,425
H. E. Staunton                     59,014
J. M. Strachan                     28,887
D. A. Walker                      124,641





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