Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
10 January 2006





                                                                 10 January 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 9 January 2006 that it had on 9
January 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 623.00p per share:

Director/PDMR           Number of Shares
Mr G A Hoffman          20
Mr D L Roberts          20
Mr J S Varley           20
Mr L C Dickinson        16
Mr M Merson             20

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 9 January 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          173,736                      -
Mr D L Roberts          77,039                       -
Mr J S Varley           360,075                      -

In addition to the interests shown above, the trustees of all the Barclays Group
employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 147,145,847 ordinary shares in
Barclays PLC. Mr G A Hoffman, Mr D L Roberts and Mr J S Varley 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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