Director/PDMR Shareholding

Legal & General Group PLC
02 August 2005

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 2005 each executive director
chose to contribute to purchase the following partnership shares:

                                Partnership Shares
C. R. R. Avery                  110
T. J. Breedon                   110
A. W. Palmer                    109
R. A. Phipps                    110
J. B. Pollock                   110
D. J. Prosser                   109

The Group matched these shares, on a one-to-one basis, up to £20 per month.
Accordingly, each executive director received 18 matching shares. The shares
were purchased at a price of 114.25p 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:-

                                    Shares          Shares in schemes or        Options          Total beneficial
                                                           plans                                     interests
        Name
C. R. R. Avery                     365,754                  217,404           272,836                   855,994
T. J. Breedon                      679,620                  342,518            90,175                 1,112,313
A. W. Palmer                       458,282                  310,581         1,494,107                 2,262,970
R. A. Phipps                       856,255                  323,612           400,187                 1,580,054
J. B. Pollock                      196,010                  140,092            30,408                   366,510
D. J. Prosser                    2,266,980                1,215,558         1,527,944                 5,010,509



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
D. W. Binding                   109
M. J. Bolton                    109
G. J. Hoskin                    109
I. A. Gibson                    110
C. C. Hatry                     110

The Group matched these shares, on a one-to-one basis, up to £20 per month.
Accordingly, each Senior Manager received 18 matching shares.  The shares were
purchased at a price of 114.25p per share.

Non Executive Directors' purchases

On 1 August 2005 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 114.25p per share.

F. A. Heaton                        1,271
B. C. Hodson                        1,271
R. J. Margetts                      6,409
J. B. Morgans                       1,271
R. H. Schmitz                       1,271
H. E. Staunton                      1,700
J. M. Strachan                      1,271
D. A. Walker                        1,700

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

F. A. Heaton                         57,729
B. C. Hodson                         57,816
R. J. Margetts                      357,307
J. B. Morgans                        99,223
R. H. Schmitz                        65,090
H. E. Staunton                       71,985
J. M. Strachan                       41,626
D. A. Walker                        180,240



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