Director/PDMR Shareholding

Legal & General Group PLC
04 February 2008

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 February 2008, 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, with the exception of J. B. Pollock,
received 16 matching shares; J. B. Pollock received 15 matching shares.  The
shares were purchased at a price of 132.66p 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         Options    Total beneficial
                                schemes or plans                   interests
                                    

C R R Avery         710,669         212,321           272,836       1,195,826
                                 
T J Breedon       1,280,782         405,786            87,880       1,774,448
                                  
A W Palmer        1,023,441         282,794           794,107       2,100,342
                                    
J B Pollock         297,670         172,244            30,408         500,322

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                                                 95

C. A. Davies                                                 94

M. J. Gregory                                                94

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.  Differences are
due to rounding from previous allocations.  The shares were purchased at a price
of 132.66p per share.

Non Executive Directors' purchases

On 1 February 2008, 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
133.90p per share.

F. A. Heaton                        1,176

R. J. Margetts                      5,925

R.H.P. Markham                      1,176

R. H. Schmitz                       1,176

H. E. Staunton                      1,632

J. M. Strachan                      1,176

D. A. Walker                        1,998

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

F. A. Heaton                         90,051

R. J. Margetts                      531,875

R.H.P. Markham                       18,370

R. H. Schmitz                        97,412

H. E. Staunton                      115,261

J. M. Strachan                       75,998

D. A. Walker                        280,966





Helen Forster
Assistant Company Secretary
4 February 2008


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