Rule 8.3 - PRUDENTIAL

FORM 8.3

    DEALINGS BY PERSONS WITH INTERESTS IN SECURITIES REPRESENTING 1% OR MORE
              (Rule 8.3 of the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers)


1.   KEY INFORMATION

Name of person dealing        BARCLAYS PLC
(Note 1)
Company dealt in              PRUDENTIAL PLC
Class of relevant security    ORD GBP 0.05
to which the dealings being
disclosed relate (Note 2)
Date of dealing               06 JANUARY 2006

2.   INTERESTS, SHORT POSITIONS AND RIGHTS TO SUBSCRIBE

(a)  Interests and short positions (following dealing) in the class of relevant
security dealt in (Note 3)

                             Long                   Short

                           Number      (%)         Number      (%)

(1) Relevant          137,639,016  (5.77%)      1,968,746  (0.08%)
securities
(2) Derivatives         2,737,747  (0.11%)      1,059,022  (0.04%)
(other than
options)
(3) Options and         1,040,141  (0.04%)      6,442,236  (0.27%)
agreements to
purchase/sell
Total                 141,416,904  (5.93%)      9,470,004  (0.40%)



(b)  Interests and short positions in relevant securities of the company, other
     than the class dealt in (Note 3)

Class of                    Long                     Short
relevant
security:

                  Number                    Number
                                    (%)                       (%)
(1) Relevant
securities

(2) Derivatives
(other than
options)

(3) Options and
agreements to
purchase/sell

Total


(c)  Rights to subscribe (Note 3)

Class of relevant security:   Details



3.   DEALINGS (Note 4)

(a)  Purchases and sales

Purchase/sale Number of Securities Price per unit
                                   (GBP)
Purchase      680                  5.6887
Purchase      412                  5.7036
Purchase      500                  5.6826
Purchase      206                  5.6836
Purchase      412                  5.6887
Purchase      201                  5.6877
Purchase      334                  5.7486
Purchase      829                  5.6838
Purchase      133                  5.6923
Purchase      400                  5.7536
Purchase      500                  5.6826
Purchase      690                  5.7136
Purchase      220,000              5.6800
Purchase      3,275                5.6800
Purchase      2,207                5.6800
Purchase      932                  5.6952
Purchase      7,100                5.6800
Purchase      47,380               5.7171
Sale          1,800                5.7212
Sale          400                  5.6812
Sale          361                  5.7164
Sale          4,250                5.7162
Sale          1,180                5.6823
Sale          482                  5.6812
Sale          596                  5.6764
Sale          183                  5.7414
Sale          933                  5.7212
Sale          862                  5.7214
Sale          580                  5.7023
Sale          1,166                5.7212
Sale          188                  Transfer
Sale          550                  5.6864
Sale          360                  5.6863
Sale          3,539                5.7044
Sale          19,970               5.7004
Sale          177,841              5.7523
Sale          106,365              5.7373
Sale          21,453               5.7328
Sale          80,764               5.7591
Sale          28,301               5.7500


(b)  Derivatives transactions (other than options)

Product    Long/Short    Number of Securities  Price Per
name,      (Note 6)      (Note 7)              Unit (GBP)
e.g. CFD
CFD        Long          202                   5.7536
CFD        Long          106,365               5.7373
CFD        Long          177,841               5.7523
CFD        Long          15,600                5.7471
CFD        Long          3,539                 5.7044
CFD        Short         932                   5.6952
CFD        Short         7,100                 5.6800
CFD        Short         4,369                 5.6750


(c)  Options transactions in respect of existing securities

(i)  Writing, selling, purchasing or varying

Product     Writing,     Number of    Exercise    Type,e.g.     Expiry   Option money
name,       selling,     securities   price       American,     date     paid/received
e.g. call   purchasing   to which                 European               per unit (note 5)
option      , varying    the option               etc.
            etc.         relates
                         (Note 7)


(ii) Exercising

Product name, e.g.  Number of           Exercise price per
call option         securities          unit (Note 5)


(d)  Other dealings (including new securities) (Note 4)


Nature of transaction Details           Price per unit
(Note 8)                                (if applicable)
                                        (Note 5)

4.   OTHER INFORMATION

Agreements, arrangements or understandings relating to options or derivatives


Full details of any agreement, arrangement or understanding between the
person disclosing and any other person relating to the voting rights of
any relevant securities under any option referred to on this form or
relating to the voting rights or future acquisition or disposal of any
relevant securities to which any derivative referred to on this form is
referenced.  If none, this should be stated.



Is a Supplemental Form 8 attached? (Note 9)                 NO


Date of disclosure                         09 JANUARY 2006
Contact name                               BARCLAYS CORPORATE SECRETARIAT
Telephone number                           020 7116 2913
If a connected EFM, name of
offeree/offeror with which connected
If a connected EFM, state nature of
connection (Note 10)


Notes

The Notes on Form 8.3 can be viewed on the Takeover Panel's website at
www.thetakeoverpanel.org.uk