Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
16 May 2006

                                                                     16 May 2006

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

The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit Trust
(the 'ESAS Trust') notified the Company on 15 May 2006 that it had between 8 May
and 12 May 2006 exercised its discretion and released a total of 35,496 ordinary
shares in Barclays PLC. None of the shares released or purchased were in respect
of an award made to a director of Barclays PLC.

Following these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group employees'
benefit trusts hold a total of 162,178,057 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC. The
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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