Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
14 July 2005


                                                                    14 July 2005

         Notification of directors' interests: Companies Act 1985 s.329

The trustee of the Barclays Group Sharepurchase Plan, an Inland Revenue approved
all-employee share plan, informed the Company on 7 July 2005 that it had on 7
July 2005 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 at a price of 539p per share:

Director           Number of Shares
Mr J S Varley      48
Mr D L Roberts     48
Mr G A Hoffman     48

The Barclays Group Sharepurchase Plan now includes Matching Shares provided by
the Company on a 1:1 basis up to the first £600 per annum invested by the
director under the Plan. The number of shares purchased on 7 July 2005 for each
director above includes 24 Matching Shares.

The revised total shareholding for each director following these transactions is
as follows:

Director           Beneficial Holding    Non Beneficial Holding
Mr J S Varley      351,189               -
Mr D L Roberts     70,814                -
Mr G A Hoffman     178,674               -

In addition to the interests shown above, the trustees of all the Barclays Group
employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 145,707,721 ordinary shares in
Barclays PLC. Matthew W Barrett, 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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