Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
15 August 2006


                                                                  15 August 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 the Barclays PLC ('the Company') on 14 August 2006
that it had on 8 August 2006 exercised its discretion and released a total of
283,758 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC. None of the shares released 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 165,644,124 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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