Director/PDMR Shareholding

Legal & General Group PLC
04 September 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 3 September 2007, each executive director chose to contribute
to purchase the following partnership shares:
                                             Partnership Shares
C. R. R. Avery                                               85
T. J. Breedon                                                85
A. W. Palmer                                                 85
J. B. Pollock                                                85

The Group matched these shares, on a one-to-one basis, up to £20 per month.
Accordingly, each executive director received 14 matching shares.  The shares
were purchased at a price of 146.1p 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                 211,623           272,836                 1,182,857

C R R Avery
                                  1,280,782                 405,088            87,880                 1,773,750

T J Breedon
                                  1,023,297                 282,096           794,107                 2,099,500

A W Palmer
                                    297,670                 171,547            30,408                   499,625

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                                                 85
C. A. Davies                                                 86
I. A. Gibson                                                 86
M. J. Gregory                                                86
G. J. Hoskin                                                 85

The Group matched these shares, on a one-to-one basis, up to £20 per month.
Accordingly, each Senior Manager, with the exceptions of C. A. Davies and M. J.
Gregory, received 14 matching shares; C. A. Davies and M. J. Gregory each
received 13 matching shares.  Differences are due to rounding from previous
allocations.  The shares were purchased at a price of 146.1p per share.

Non Executive Directors' purchases

On 3 September 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 146.2p per share.
F. A. Heaton                          993
R. J. Margetts                      5,427
R. H. Schmitz                         993
H. E. Staunton                      1,328
J. M. Strachan                        993
D. A. Walker                        1,328

Following these awards, the non-executive directors' current beneficial
interests in the Group now stand at:
F. A. Heaton                         84,493
R. J. Margetts                      502,002
R. H. Schmitz                        91,854
H. E. Staunton                      107,770
J. M. Strachan                       70,440
D. A. Walker                        249,696







Helen Forster

Assistant Company Secretary

4 September 2007




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