Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
04 August 2006







                                                                   4 August 2006



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


On 3 August 2006 the following ordinary shares in Barclays PLC were purchased on
behalf of the following non-executive directors of Barclays PLC at a price of
631.50p per share. As disclosed in the Barclays Annual Report, these purchases
arise from the policy of using part of each director's fee to purchase shares in
Barclays PLC on the directors' behalf which, together with reinvested dividends,
are retained for the director until they leave the Board.




DIRECTOR                  BARCLAYS PLC   TOTAL BENEFICIAL     TOTAL NON-
                          SHARES         INTEREST FOLLOWING   BENEFICIAL  
                          PURCHASED      THIS NOTIFICATION    INTEREST FOLLOWING
                                                              THIS NOTIFICATION

Sir Richard Broadbent     955            8,045                -
Leigh Clifford            895            5,219                -
Fulvio Conti              538            2,538                -
Dr Danie Cronje           878            3,547                -
Professor Sandra Dawson   1064           9,921                -
Sir Andrew Likierman      887            5,441                -
Sir Nigel Rudd            1,246          51,117               -
Stephen Russell           1,172          18,581               -
Robert Steel              854            104,492              -
Sir John Sunderland       864            10,054               -








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