Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
08 December 2006


                                                                 8 December 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 ('the Plan'), an HM Revenue
and Customs approved all-employee share plan, informed the Company on 7 December
2006 that it had on 7 December 2006 purchased, and now held as bare trustee of
the Plan, the following ordinary shares in the capital of Barclays PLC for the
following directors/Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility (PDMRs) at a
price of 716.00p per share:

Director/PDMR         Number of Shares

Mr G A Hoffman        17
Mr D L Roberts        17
Mr J S Varley         17
Mr L C Dickinson      14

The Plan now 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 December 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        319,186                    -
Mr D L Roberts        225,577                    -
Mr J S Varley         375,053                    -

In addition to these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group
employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 169,541,957 ordinary shares in
Barclays PLC. The Chairman and the executive directors of Barclays PLC 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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