Director/PDMR Shareholding

Legal & General Group PLC
03 August 2006

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 1 August 2006, each executive director
chose to contribute to purchase the following partnership shares:

                                             Partnership Shares
C. R. R. Avery                                              100
T. J. Breedon                                               100
A. W. Palmer                                                100
R. A. Phipps                                                100
J. B. Pollock                                               100

The Group matched these shares, on a one-to-one basis, up to £20 per month.
Accordingly, each executive director received 16 matching shares. The shares
were purchased at a price of 125.5p 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:-

   Name                 Shares        Shares in schemes or        Options          Total beneficial
                                              plans                                    interests
                                                            
                                    
C R R Avery             630,956             206,308              272,836                 1,110,100
                      
T J Breedon           1,010,858             364,673               78,660                 1,454,191
                                                                                                
A W Palmer              530,348             278,017            1,494,107                 2,302,472                      
                                                                       
R A Phipps            1,183,307             296,238              404,755                 1,884,300
                                                            
J B Pollock             271,858             152,941               30,408                   455,207

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                                                100
C. A. Davies                                                 99
I. A. Gibson                                                100
C. C. Hatry                                                 100
G. J. Hoskin                                                100

The Group matched these shares, on a one-to-one basis, up to £20 per month.
Accordingly, each Senior Manager received 16 matching shares.  The shares were
purchased at a price of 125.5p per share.

Non Executive Directors' purchases

On 1 August 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 124.25p per share.

F. A. Heaton                       1, 169
B. C. Hodson                       1, 169
R. J. Margetts                      5,894
R. H. Schmitz                       1,169
H. E. Staunton                      1,563
J. M. Strachan                      1,169
D. A. Walker                        1,563

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

F. A. Heaton                         71,809
B. C. Hodson                         71,896
R. J. Margetts                      430,530
R. H. Schmitz                        79,170
H. E. Staunton                       90,812
J. M. Strachan                       57,756
D. A. Walker                        209,067




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