Director Shareholding

Legal & General Group PLC
02 April 2004


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 April 2004 each executive director chose
to contribute to purchase the following partnership shares:

                                Partnership Shares

C. R. R. Avery                  132
T. J. Breedon                   132
A.W. Palmer                     132
R. A. Phipps                    132
J. B. Pollock                   132
D. J. Prosser                   132

The Group matched these shares, on a one-to-one basis, up to £20 per month.
Accordingly, each executive director received 22 matching shares. The shares
were purchased at a price of 94.75p per share.

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

C. R. R. Avery                  692,794
T. J. Breedon                   878,666
A.W. Palmer                     2,097,074
R. A. Phipps                    1,413,678
J. B. Pollock                   252,156
D. J. Prosser                   4,332,093


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