Director/PDMR Shareholding

Legal & General Group PLC
02 October 2007

Legal & General Group Plc

Legal & General Group Employee Share Plan

In common with all eligible employees, each of the executive directors of Legal
& General Group Plc ('the Group') has been invited to apply for partnership
shares under the Legal & General Group Employee Share Plan ('the Plan') on a
monthly basis.  On 1 October 2007, each executive director chose to contribute
to purchase the following partnership shares:

                                             Partnership Shares
C. R. R. Avery                                               94
T. J. Breedon                                                94
A. W. Palmer                                                 94
J. B. Pollock                                                94

The Group matched these shares, on a one-to-one basis, up to £20 per month.
Accordingly, each executive director received 15 matching shares.  The shares
were purchased at a price of 133.7p per share.

Following these awards, the executive directors have beneficial interests in the
shares of the Group (comprising shares, shares held by trustees within share
schemes or plans and share options) as set out below:-

        Name                   Shares          Shares in schemes or        Options          Total beneficial
                                                       plans                                    interests
                                    698,398                 211,732           272,836                 1,182,966

C R R Avery
                                  1,280,782                 405,197            87,880                 1,773,859

T J Breedon
                                  1,023,297                 282,205           794,107                 2,099,609

A W Palmer
                                    297,670                 171,656            30,408                   499,734

J B Pollock

The following Senior Managers also chose to take part in the Plan.  Each Senior
Manager chose to contribute to purchase the following partnership shares:

                                             Partnership Shares
M. J. Bolton                                                 94
C. A. Davies                                                 93
I. A. Gibson                                                 94
M. J. Gregory                                                93
G. J. Hoskin                                                 94

The Group matched these shares, on a one-to-one basis, up to £20 per month.
Accordingly, each Senior Manager received 15 matching shares.  The shares were
purchased at a price of 133.7p per share.

Non Executive Directors' purchases

On 1 October 2007, the following non-executive directors of the Group purchased
the following ordinary shares of 2.5p each ('shares') in the Group at a price of
134.3p per share.

F. A. Heaton                        1,081
R. J. Margetts                      5,908
R. H. Schmitz                       1,081
H. E. Staunton                      1,445
J. M. Strachan                      1,081
D. A. Walker                        1,445

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

F. A. Heaton                         85,574
R. J. Margetts                      507,910
R. H. Schmitz                        92,935
H. E. Staunton                      109,215
J. M. Strachan                       71,521
D. A. Walker                        251,141







Helen Forster

Assistant Company Secretary

2 October 2007


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