Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
28 December 2006


                                                                28 December 2006



   Director/PDMR shareholding: Disclosure Rules 3.1.4R(1)(a) and 3.1.4R(1)(b)


The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit Trust
(the 'ESAS Trust') notified Barclays PLC ('the Company') on 27 December 2006
that it had between 18 December 2006 and 21 December 2006 exercised its
discretion and released a total of 4,126,665 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC and
on 21 December 2006 it purchased 415,676 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC at a
price of 721.71 pence per share. None of the shares purchased were in respect of
an award made to a director of Barclays PLC.


Following these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group employees'
benefit trusts hold a total of 165,645,889 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC. The
Chairman and the executive directors of Barclays PLC are amongst the potential
beneficiaries under these trusts and are therefore regarded for Companies Act
purposes as being interested in the Barclays PLC ordinary shares held in them.


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