Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
16 May 2007


                                                                     16 May 2007






 Director/PDMR shareholding: Disclosure and Transparency 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 15 May 2007 that it
had on 15 May 2007 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 final dividend for the year ended 31
December 2006, for the following directors/Persons Discharging Managerial
Responsibility (PDMRs) at a price of 716.00p per share:



Director/PDMR        No. of shares received
G A Hoffman          51
F F Seegers          9
J S Varley           51


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


Director         Beneficial Holding     Non-Beneficial Holding

G A Hoffman      361,211                -

F F Seegers      4,613                  -

J S Varley       400,610                -     









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