Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
03 July 2007


                                                                     3 July 2007


 Director/PDMR Shareholding: Disclosure and Transparency 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 Company on 29 June 2007 that it had on 29 June
2007 exercised its discretion and released a total of 641,766 ordinary shares in
Barclays PLC to participants in the Executive Share Award Scheme ('ESAS'). The
shares were released following provisional allocations made by the trustee over
Barclays PLC ordinary shares to participants in the ESAS. Of these shares, the
following were released to directors and PDMRs of Barclays PLC:


Director/PDMR    Shares       Shares sold on      Price per       Shares        
                 released     behalf of director  share (pence)   retained by   
                 to Director  to satisfy                          Director /PDMR 
                              withholding 
                              liabilities                     
                                                            
Mr F F Seegers   641,766       263,520             686.194         378,246    


The revised total shareholding following this transaction is as follows:
 
Director         Beneficial Holding

Mr F F Seegers   383,859




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