Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
17 November 2005




                                                                17 November 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 (ESAS) Employees' Benefit Trust
   (the 'ESAS Trust') notified the Company on 17 November 2005 that it had on
   17 November 2005 exercised its discretion and released a total of 219,526
   ordinary shares in Barclays PLC to the following participant in the Executive
   Share Award Scheme ('ESAS'). The shares were released following a provisional
   allocation made by the trustee over Barclays PLC ordinary shares. The
   following shares were released to a director of Barclays PLC:

Director         Shares released    Shares sold on       Price       Shares
                 to director        behalf of director   per share   retained
                                                         (pence)     by director

Mr RE Diamond Jr 219,526            72,553               601.5       146,973

The revised total shareholding for Mr RE Diamond Jr following these transactions
is as follows:

Director          Beneficial Holding    Non-Beneficial Holding

Mr RE Diamond Jr  1,504,291             -

Following these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group employees'
benefit trusts hold a total of 139,790,765 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC.
Mr RE Diamond, 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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