Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
01 May 2007


                                                                      1 May 2007


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


The Company was notified on 30 April 2007 by the Administrators of the Dividend
Reinvestment Plan (the 'Plan') that on 27 April 2007 the following directors/
Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility (PDMRs) (or their connected
persons) had received ordinary shares in the Company under the Plan for the year
ended 31 December 2006 at a price of 735.15p per share. The number of shares
received, together with their total beneficial interests following the
notification are as follows:

Director/PDMR                    No. of shares received     Beneficial Interest

Sir Richard Broadbent            87                         8,985
Professor Dame Sandra Dawson     60                         10,869
Stephen Russell                  71                         19,649






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