Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
03 August 2007
                                                                   3 August 2007

                                  Barclays PLC


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


On 2 August 2007 the following Directors of Barclays PLC ('the Company')
notified the Company that on 2 August 2007 they had each purchased ordinary
shares in the Company as follows:

DIRECTOR           BARCLAYS PLC  PRICE PER SHARE           TOTAL           TOTAL
                         SHARES          (PENCE)      BENEFICIAL  NON-BENEFICIAL
                      PURCHASED                         INTEREST        INTEREST
                                                  FOLLOWING THIS  FOLLOWING THIS
                                                    NOTIFICATION    NOTIFICATION

Marcus Agius           70,000            682.0          85,427               -

Sir Richard
Broadbent               4,000            682.0          12,985               -

Leigh Clifford*         6,000            690.0          11,982               -

Fulvio Conti            6,000            682.0           9,270               -

Robert E
Diamond, Jr           140,000            674.0       3,365,174               -

Gary Hoffman           70,000            680.0         431,211               -

Sir Andrew
Likierman               1,000            685.0           7,227               -

Christopher
Lucas                  35,000            682.0          37,291               -

Sir Nigel Rudd         15,000            679.5          67,057               -

Frits Seegers         140,000            680.0         522,859               -

John Varley            70,000            682.0         470,610               -


* Mr Clifford notified the Company on 3 August 2007


On 2 August 2007, Paul Idzik, a PDMR of the Company, notified the Company that
on 2 August 2007 he had purchased 35,875 American Depositary Shares ('ADS') in
the Company at a price of $55.8551 per ADS. Each ADS represents four ordinary
shares.


In addition to the above transactions, Naguib Kheraj, former Group Finance
Director of the Company, purchased 200,000 ordinary shares in the Company on 2
August 2007 at 682.0 pence per share.


On 2 August 2007, the following ordinary shares in Barclays PLC were purchased
on behalf of the following non-executive directors of Barclays PLC at a price of
679.0 pence 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 INTEREST  TOTAL NON-BENEFICIAL
               SHARES         FOLLOWING THIS             INTEREST FOLLOWING THIS
               PURCHASED      NOTIFICATION               NOTIFICATION
              
David Booth         374                     50,374                           -

Sir Richard             
Broadbent           979                     13,964                           -
            
Leigh Clifford      890                     12,872                           -
          
Fulvio Conti        797                     10,067                           -
         
Dr Danie Cronje     832                      5,146                           -

Professor Dame              
Sandra Dawson     1,128                     11,997                           -

Sir Andrew
Likierman           910                      8,137                           -
  
Sir Nigel Rudd    1,286                     68,343                           -
       
Stephen Russell   1,228                     20,952                           -

Sir John
Sunderland          856                     11,658                           -




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