Director Shareholding

Legal & General Group PLC
04 April 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 April 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 17 matching shares. The shares
were purchased at a price of 113.5p 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
        Name                                                  plans                                   interests

C. R. R. Avery                     285,534                  216,310           272,836                   774,680
T. J. Breedon                      673,150                  236,482            90,175                   999,807
A. W. Palmer                       393,575                  299,315         1,494,107                 2,186,997
R. A. Phipps                       769,978                  331,908           400,187                 1,502,073
J. B. Pollock                      174,149                  115,946            30,408                   320,503
D. J. Prosser                    1,997,360                1,332,959         1,527,944                 4,858,263


Non Executive Directors' purchases

On 1 April 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 113.5p per share.

F. A. Heaton                        1,279
B. C. Hodson                        1,279
R. J. Margetts                      6,452
J. B. Morgans                       1,711
R. H. Schmitz                       1,279
H. E. Staunton                      1,279
J. M. Strachan                      1,279
D. A. Walker                        1,711


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

F. A. Heaton                       52,498
B. C. Hodson                       52,585
R. J. Margetts                    330,925
J. B. Morgans                      93,533
R. H. Schmitz                      59,859
H. E. Staunton                     65,448
J. M. Strachan                     35,321
D. A. Walker                      158,244



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