Director Shareholding

Legal & General Group PLC
04 May 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 3 May 2005 each executive director chose
to contribute to purchase the following partnership shares:


                         Partnership Shares
C. R. R. Avery                  118
T. J. Breedon                   118
A. W. Palmer                    118
R. A. Phipps                    118
J. B. Pollock                   118
D. J. Prosser                   118

The Group matched these shares, on a one-to-one basis, up to £20 per month.
Accordingly, each executive director received 19 matching shares. The shares
were purchased at a price of 125.74p 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                     354,394                  217,017           272,836                   844,247
T. J. Breedon                      679,620                  342,131            90,175                 1,111,926
A. W. Palmer                       458,282                  310,194         1,494,107                 2,262,583
R. A. Phipps                       856,255                  323,225           400,187                 1,579,667
J. B. Pollock                      196,010                  139,705            30,408                   366,123
D. J. Prosser                    2,266,980                1,215,198         1,527,944                 5,010,122


Non Executive Directors' purchases

On 3 May 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 106.75p per share.

F. A. Heaton                        1,360
B. C. Hodson                        1,360
R. J. Margetts                      6,860
J. B. Morgans                       1,819
R. H. Schmitz                       1,360
H. E. Staunton                      1,360
J. M. Strachan                      1,360
D. A. Walker                        1,819


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

F. A. Heaton                       53,858
B. C. Hodson                       53,945
R. J. Margetts                    337,785
J. B. Morgans                      95,352
R. H. Schmitz                      61,219
H. E. Staunton                     66,808
J. M. Strachan                     36,681
D. A. Walker                      160,063





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