Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
18 December 2006







                                                                18 December 2006



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


Mr Robert E Diamond Jr, a director of Barclays PLC ('the Company') notified the
Company on 15 December 2006 that, on 15 December 2006, he transferred 100
ordinary shares in the Company as a gift for nil consideration. The revised
total shareholding for Mr Diamond following the transaction is 2,531,582
ordinary shares.








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