Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
08 June 2006







                                                                     8 June 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 7 June 2006 that it had on 7
June 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 608.50p per share:


Director/PDMR             Number of Shares

Mr G A Hoffman            42
Mr D L Roberts            42
Mr J S Varley             42
Mr L C Dickinson          16


The Barclays Group Sharepurchase 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 June 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           317,489                -
Mr D L Roberts           221,225                -
Mr J S Varley            374,864                -


In addition to the interests shown above, the trustees of all the Barclays Group
employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 163,194,184 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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