Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
10 August 2005



                                                                  10 August 2005

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

The trustee of the Barclays Group Sharepurchase Plan, an Inland Revenue approved
all-employee share plan, informed the Company on 9 August 2005 that it had on 8
August 2005 purchased, and now held as bare trustee of the Barclays Group
Sharepurchase Plan, the following ordinary shares in the capital of Barclays PLC
for the following directors/Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility
(PDMRs) at a price of 585.50p per share:

Director/PDMR         Number of Shares
Mr G A Hoffman        48
Mr D L Roberts        48
Mr J S Varley         48
Mr L C Dickinson      18
Mr C R Walklin        44

The Barclays Group Sharepurchase 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 8 August 2005 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       178,722                    -
Mr D L Roberts       70,862                     -
Mr J S Varley        351,237                    -

In addition to the interests shown above, the trustees of all the Barclays Group
employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 145,683,297 ordinary shares in
Barclays PLC. Matthew W Barrett, 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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