Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
10 April 2006


                                                                   10 April 2006


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


The trustee of the Barclays Group Sharepurchase Plan, an Inland Revenue approved
all-employee share plan, informed the Company on 7 April 2006 that it had on 7
April 2006 purchased, and now held as bare trustee of the Barclays Group
Sharepurchase Plan, the following ordinary shares in the capital of Barclays PLC
for the following directors/Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility
(PDMRs) at a price of 693.50p per share:

Director/PDMR         Number of Shares

Mr G A Hoffman        18
Mr D L Roberts        18
Mr J S Varley         18
Mr L C Dickinson      7


The Barclays Group Sharepurchase Plan now includes Matching Shares provided by
the Company on a 1:1 basis up to the first £600 per annum invested by the
participant under the Plan. The number of shares purchased on 7 April 2006 for
each director/PDMR above includes the Matching Shares.

The revised total shareholding for each director following these transactions is
as follows:

Director              Beneficial Holding         Non Beneficial
                                                 Holding

Mr G A Hoffman        317,123                    -
Mr D L Roberts        219,185                    -
Mr J S Varley         374,748                    -


In addition to the interests shown above, the trustees of all the Barclays Group
employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 159,905,069 ordinary shares in
Barclays PLC. The Chairman and the executive directors of Barclays 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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