Director/PDMR Shareholding

Legal & General Group PLC
02 November 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 November 2006, each executive director
chose to contribute to purchase the following partnership shares:

                                             Partnership Shares

C. R. R. Avery                                               86

T. J. Breedon                                                86

A. W. Palmer                                                 86

R. A. Phipps                                                 86

J. B. Pollock                                                86


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 145.25p 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             642,247          206,769           272,836          1,121,852    
                                  
T J Breedon           1,010,858          365,134            87,880          1,463,872
                                   
A W Palmer              530,742          278,479         1,494,107          2,303,328
                                                                              
R A Phipps            1,197,052          296,699           391,280          1,885,031
                                    
J B Pollock             271,858          153,402            30,408            455,668

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                                                 86

C. A. Davies                                                 86

I. A. Gibson                                                 86

C. C. Hatry                                                  86

G. J. Hoskin                                                 86

The Group matched these shares, on a one-to-one basis, up to £20 per month.
Accordingly, each Senior Manager received 14 matching shares.  The shares were
purchased at a price of 145.25p per share.

Non Executive Directors' purchases

On 1 November 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 146.25p per share.

F. A. Heaton                          993

B. C. Hodson                          993

R. J. Margetts                      5,007

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 Group now stand at:

F. A. Heaton                         74,916

B. C. Hodson                         75,003

R. J. Margetts                      448,312

R. H. Schmitz                        82,277

H. E. Staunton                       94,965

J. M. Strachan                       60,863

D. A. Walker                        215,865




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