Director/PDMR Shareholding

Legal & General Group PLC
02 November 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 1 November 2007, each executive director chose to contribute
to purchase the following partnership shares:

                                             Partnership Shares

C. R. R. Avery                                               91
T. J. Breedon                                                91
A. W. Palmer                                                 91
J. B. Pollock                                                91

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 137.3p 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
                                    
C R R Avery                         710,669                 211,837           272,836                 1,195,342
                                  
T J Breedon                       1,280,782                 405,302            87,880                 1,773,964
                                  
A W Palmer                        1,023,441                 282,310           794,107                 2,099,858
                                    
J B Pollock                         297,670                 171,761            30,408                   499,839

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                                                 91
C. A. Davies                                                 91
I. A. Gibson                                                 91
M. J. Gregory                                                91
G. J. Hoskin                                                 91

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 15 matching shares.  Differences are due to rounding from previous
allocations.  The shares were purchased at a price of 137.3p per share.

Non Executive Directors' purchases

On 1 November 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
137.2p per share.

F. A. Heaton                        1,058
R. J. Margetts                      5,783
R. H. Schmitz                       1,058
H. E. Staunton                      1,415
J. M. Strachan                      1,058
D. A. Walker                        1,415

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

F. A. Heaton                         86,632
R. J. Margetts                      513,693
R. H. Schmitz                        93,993
H. E. Staunton                      110,630
J. M. Strachan                       72,579
D. A. Walker                        255,969


Helen Forster
Assistant Company Secretary
2 November 2007


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