Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
11 July 2006



                                                                    11 July 2006





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



The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit Trust
(the 'ESAS Trust') notified the Company on 10 July 2006 that it had on 4 July
2006 exercised its discretion and released a total of 7,012 ordinary shares in
Barclays PLC. None of the shares released were in respect of an award made to a
director of Barclays PLC.


Following these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group employees'
benefit trusts hold a total of 163,320,063 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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