Director/PDMR Shareholding

Legal & General Group PLC
02 December 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 December 2005 each executive director
chose to contribute to purchase the following partnership shares:

                                Partnership Shares
C. R. R. Avery                  107
T. J. Breedon                   107
A. W. Palmer                    108
R. A. Phipps                    107
J. B. Pollock                   107
D. J. Prosser                   108

The Group matched these shares, on a one-to-one basis, up to £20 per month.
Accordingly, each executive director received 17 matching shares. The shares
were purchased at a price of 116.5p 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:-

                                  Shares            Shares in schemes or      Options          Total beneficial
                                                          plans                                     interests
        Name
C. R. R. Avery                     370,989                  218,069           272,836                   861,894
T. J. Breedon                      691,135                  343,183            78,660                 1,112,978
A. W. Palmer                       458,282                  311,247         1,494,107                 2,263,636
R. A. Phipps                       856,255                  324,277           400,187                 1,580,719
J. B. Pollock                      196,010                  140,757            30,408                   367,175
D. J. Prosser                    2,266,980                1,216,251         1,527,944                 5,011,175

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                    108
C. A. Davies                    107
I. A. Gibson                    107
C. C. Hatry                     107
G. J. Hoskin                    107

The Group matched these shares, on a one-to-one basis, up to £20 per month.
Accordingly, each Senior Manager received 17 matching shares. The shares were
purchased at a price of 116.5p per share.

Non Executive Directors' purchases

On 1 December 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 116.5p per share.

F. A. Heaton                        1,246
B. C. Hodson                        1,246
R. J. Margetts                      6,286
J. B. Morgans                       1,246
R. H. Schmitz                       1,246
H. E. Staunton                      1,667
J. M. Strachan                      1,246
D. A. Walker                        1,667

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

F. A. Heaton                         62,885
B. C. Hodson                         62,972
R. J. Margetts                      385,527
J. B. Morgans                       104,379
R. H. Schmitz                        70,246
H. E. Staunton                       78,879
J. M. Strachan                       47,396
D. A. Walker                        187,134






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