Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
31 May 2006


                                                                     31 May 2006





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



1.  The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit 
    Trust (the 'ESAS Trust') notified the Company on 30 May 2006 that it had
    on 26 May 2006 exercised its discretion and purchased 50,356 ordinary 
    shares in Barclays PLC at a price of 608.33p per share. None of the shares 
    purchased were in respect of an award made to a director of Barclays PLC.


2.  The independent trustee of the Barclays Group PSP Trust (the 'PSP Trust') 
    notified the Company on 30 May 2006 that it had on 26 May 2006 exercised
    its discretion and purchased a total of 1,043,827 shares in Barclays PLC at 
    a price of 608.33p per share. The participants for whom the shares were 
    purchased are not directors of Barclays PLC.

Following these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group employees'
benefit trusts hold a total of 163,272,240 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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