Director/PDMR Shareholding

Legal & General Group PLC
03 April 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 2 April 2007, each executive director chose to contribute to
purchase the following partnership shares:
                                             Partnership Shares
C. R. R. Avery                                               78
T. J. Breedon                                                78
A. W. Palmer                                                 78
R. A. Phipps                                                 78
J. B. Pollock                                                78

The Group matched these shares, on a one-to-one basis, up to £20 per month.
Accordingly, each executive director, with the exception of R. A. Phipps,
received 12 matching shares; R. A. Phipps received 13 matching shares. The
shares were purchased at a price of 160.1p per share.  Differences are due to
rounding from previous allocations.

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
                                    642,247                 207,229           272,836                 1,122,312

C R R Avery
                                  1,010,858                 365,594            87,880                 1,464,332

T J Breedon
                                    530,742                 278,938         1,494,107                 2,303,787

A W Palmer
                                  1,197,052                 297,159           391,280                 1,885,491

R A Phipps
                                    271,858                 153,862            30,408                   456,128

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                                                 78
C. A. Davies                                                 78
I. A. Gibson                                                 78
M. J. Gregory                                                79
G. J. Hoskin                                                 78

The Group matched these shares, on a one-to-one basis, up to £20 per month.
Accordingly, each Senior Manager received 12 matching shares.  The shares were
purchased at a price of 160.1p per share.  Differences are due to rounding from
previous allocations.

Non Executive Directors' purchases

On 2 April 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
160.3p per share.

F. A. Heaton                          906
B. C. Hodson                          906
R. J. Margetts                      4,950
R. H. Schmitz                         906
H. E. Staunton                      1,211
J. M. Strachan                        906
D. A. Walker                        1,211

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

F. A. Heaton                         79,558
B. C. Hodson                         79,645
R. J. Margetts                      472,890
R. H. Schmitz                        86,919
H. E. Staunton                      101,173
J. M. Strachan                       65,505
D. A. Walker                        222,073




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