Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
15 May 2006


                                                                     15 May 2005



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


1.  The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (PSP) Employees' Benefit Trust 
    (the 'PSP Trust') notified the Company on 12 May 2006 that on 21 April 2006 
    it had resolved to grant the following awards under PSP to directors of
    Barclays PLC:

    Director              Allocation of performance    Maximum number 
                          shares (a)                   potentially releasable
                           
    Robert Diamond Jr     768,736                      2,306,208
    Gary Hoffman          96,092                       288,276
    Naguib Kheraj         107,624                      322,872
    David Roberts         92,250                       276,750
    John Varley           153,748                      461,244

    Note:
    (a) Under PSP, awards are granted as a provisional allocation and do not
        give rise to any entitlement to the shares. At the third anniversary, 
        shares may be released by the trustee subject to performance conditions 
        being satisfied.

    The effective date of the grant of the awards was 21 March 2006 and the
    calculation of the initial award allocation was based on a share price of
    £6.5042. No consideration was paid for the grant of any award.


2.  Robert Diamond Jr, a director of Barclays PLC ('the Company'), notified the 
    Company on 12 May 2006 that, on 12 May 2006, he had, under the Barclays
    Global Investors Equity Option Plan ('BGI EOP'), exercised options (with an
    effective date of exercise of 4 May 2006) granted in Barclays Global 
    Investors UK Holdings Limited ('BGIUKHL'), a subsidiary of the Company, and 
    received 100,000 'A' ordinary shares in BGIUKHL at a price of 2011p per 
    share.

    The revised total shareholding in BGIUKHL for Robert Diamond Jr following 
    the above transaction is as follows:

    Director              Beneficial Holding

    Robert Diamond Jr     200,000 'A' ordinary shares


3.  The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit
    Trust (the 'ESAS Trust') notified the Company on 14 March 2006 that it had 
    on 13 March 2006 granted rights in the form of nil cost options over 24,790 
    ordinary shares in Barclays PLC to John Varley. The trustee has now notified 
    the Company that the actual number of nil cost options granted was over 
    24,227 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC. All other details announced by the 
    Company on 15 March 2006 in respect of Directors' interests remain 
    unchanged.


In addition to these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group
employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 162,213,553 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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