Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
17 March 2006





                                                                   17 March 2006

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

Mr D L Roberts, a Director of Barclays PLC ('the Company'), notified the Company
on 16 March 2006 that, on 15 March 2006, he had exercised Sharesave options over
1,068 ordinary shares in the Company at a price of 316.00p per share.

The revised total shareholding for Mr Roberts following this transaction is
219,167 ordinary shares.






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