Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
08 February 2007


                                                                 8 February 2007



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



The trustee of the Barclays Group Sharepurchase Plan ('the Plan'), an HM Revenue
and Customs approved all-employee share plan, informed the Company on 7 February
2007 that it had on 7 February 2007 purchased, and now held as bare trustee of
the Plan, the following ordinary shares in the capital of Barclays PLC for the
following directors/Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility (PDMRs) at a
price of 761.50p per share:


Director/PDMR         Number of Shares
Mr G A Hoffman        17
Mr J S Varley         17

The Plan 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 February 2007 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       319,219                    -
Mr J S Varley        375,086                    -


In addition to these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group
employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 165,645,889 ordinary shares in
Barclays PLC. 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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