Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
17 October 2006


                                                                 17 October 2006


   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 HM Revenue and Customs
approved all-employee share plan, informed the Company on 16 October 2006 that
it had on 16 October 2006 purchased, and now held as bare trustee of the
Barclays Group Sharepurchase Plan, the following ordinary shares in the capital
of Barclays PLC, following the re-investment of the interim dividend for the
half year ended 30 June 2006, for the following directors/Persons Discharging
Managerial Responsibility (PDMRs) at a price of 722.00p per share:

Director/PDMR          No. of shares received

G A Hoffman            24
D L Roberts            24
J S Varley             24
L C Dickinson          4
R Le Blanc             3

The revised total shareholding for each director following these transactions is
as follows:

Director               Beneficial Holding     Non-Beneficial Holding

G A Hoffman            317,791                -
D L Roberts            221,395                -
J S Varley             375,018                -

In addition to these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group
employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 167,670,318 ordinary shares in
Barclays PLC. The Chairman and the executive directors of Barclays PLC 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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