Director Shareholding

Legal & General Group PLC
05 January 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 4 January 2005 each executive director
chose to contribute to purchase the following partnership shares:

                                Partnership Shares
C. R. R. Avery                  112
T. J. Breedon                   112
A. W. Palmer                    112
R. A. Phipps                    112
J. B. Pollock                   112
D. J. Prosser                   112

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 111.5p 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                     285,534                  215,932           272,836                   774,302
T. J. Breedon                      673,150                  236,104            90,175                   999,429
A. W. Palmer                       393,575                  298,937         1,494,107                 2,186,619
R. A. Phipps                       769,978                  331,530           400,187                 1,501,695
J. B. Pollock                      174,149                  115,568            30,408                   320,125
D. J. Prosser                    1,997,360                1,180,887         1,527,944                 4,706,191

Non Executive Directors' purchases

On 4 January 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 112.25p per share.

F. A. Heaton                        1,294
B. C. Hodson                        1,294
R. J. Margetts                      6,524
J. B. Morgans                       1,730
R. H. Schmitz                       1,294
H. E. Staunton                      1,294
J. M. Strachan                      1,294
D. A. Walker                        1,730

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

F. A. Heaton                       48,709
B. C. Hodson                       48,796
R. J. Margetts                    311,816
J. B. Morgans                      88,466
R. H. Schmitz                      56,070
H. E. Staunton                     61,659
J. M. Strachan                     31,532
D. A. Walker                      153,177





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