Director Shareholding

Legal & General Group PLC
02 February 2005


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 February 2005 each executive director
chose to contribute to purchase the following partnership shares:

                         Partnership Shares

C. R. R. Avery                  110
T. J. Breedon                   110
A. W. Palmer                    110
R. A. Phipps                    110
J. B. Pollock                   110
D. J. Prosser                   110

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 114p 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 in schemes                Total beneficial
                     Shares            or plans     Options           interests
Name
C. R. R. Avery      285,534             216,060     272,836             774,430
T. J. Breedon       673,150             236,232      90,175             999,557
A. W. Palmer        393,575             299,065   1,494,107           2,186,747
R. A. Phipps        769,978             331,658     400,187           1,501,823
J. B. Pollock       174,149             115,696      30,408             320,253
D. J. Prosser     1,997,360           1,181,015   1,527,944           4,706,319

Non Executive Directors' purchases

On 1 February 2005 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 113.75p per share.

F. A. Heaton                        1,277
B. C. Hodson                        1,277
R. J. Margetts                      6,438
J. B. Morgans                       1,707
R. H. Schmitz                       1,277
H. E. Staunton                      1,277
J. M. Strachan                      1,277
D. A. Walker                        1,707

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

F. A. Heaton                       49,986
B. C. Hodson                       50,073
R. J. Margetts                    318,254
J. B. Morgans                      90,173
R. H. Schmitz                      57,347
H. E. Staunton                     62,936
J. M. Strachan                     32,809
D. A. Walker                      154,884


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