Director/PDMR Shareholding

Legal & General Group PLC
05 December 2006

Legal & General Group Plc

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 December 2006, each executive director
chose to contribute to purchase the following partnership shares:
                                             Partnership Shares
C. R. R. Avery                                               83
T. J. Breedon                                                83
A. W. Palmer                                                 82
R. A. Phipps                                                 83
J. B. Pollock                                                83

The Group matched these shares, on a one-to-one basis, up to £20 per month.
Accordingly, each executive director received 13 matching shares. The shares
were purchased at a price of 151.25p per share.  Differences are due to rounding
from previous allocations.

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:-

        Name                         Shares          Shares in schemes or      Options          Total beneficial
                                                              plans                                    interests
                                                            
                                    
C R R Avery                         642,247                 206,865           272,836                 1,121,948         
                        
T J Breedon                       1,010,858                 365,230            87,880                 1,463,968         
                          
A W Palmer                          530,742                 278,574         1,494,107                 2,303,423

R A Phipps                        1,197,052                 296,795           391,280                 1,885,127
                                    
J B Pollock                         271,858                 153,498            30,408                   455,764

The following Senior Managers also chose to take part in the Employee Share
Plan.  Each Senior Manager chose to contribute to purchase the following
partnership shares:
                                             Partnership Shares
M. J. Bolton                                                 82
C. A. Davies                                                 83
I. A. Gibson                                                 83
M. J. Gregory                                                83
G. J. Hoskin                                                 83

The Group matched these shares, on a one-to-one basis, up to £20 per month.
Accordingly, each Senior Manager received 13 matching shares.  The shares were
purchased at a price of 151.25p per share.  Differences are due to rounding from
previous allocations.

Non Executive Directors' purchases

On 1 December 2006 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 151.5p per share.
F. A. Heaton                          958
B. C. Hodson                          958
R. J. Margetts                      4,833
R. H. Schmitz                         958
H. E. Staunton                      1,282
J. M. Strachan                        958
D. A. Walker                        1,282

Following these awards, the non-executive directors' current beneficial
interests in Group now stand at:
F. A. Heaton                         75,874
B. C. Hodson                         75,961
R. J. Margetts                      453,145
R. H. Schmitz                        83,235
H. E. Staunton                       96,247
J. M. Strachan                       61,821
D. A. Walker                        217,147




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