Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
09 March 2007


                                                                    9 March 2007



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



1.  The trustee of the Barclays Group Sharepurchase Plan ('the Plan'), an HM
    Revenue and Customs approved all-employee share plan, informed Barclays PLC
    ('the Company') on 8 March 2007 that it had on 7 March 2007 purchased, and 
    now held as bare trustee of the Plan, the following ordinary shares in the 
    capital of the Company for the following directors/Persons Discharging 
    Managerial Responsibility (PDMRs) at a price of 717.00p per share:

    Director/PDMR         Number of Shares
    Mr G A Hoffman        17
    Mr J S Varley         17

    The Plan includes Matching Shares provided by the Company on a 1:1 basis up
    to the first £600 per annum invested by the participant under the Plan. The
    number of shares purchased on 7 March 2007 for each director/PDMR above 
    includes any Matching Shares.

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

    Director             Beneficial Holding         Non Beneficial
                                                    Holding

    Mr G A Hoffman       319,236                    -
    Mr J S Varley        379,199                    -

    In addition to these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group
    employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 203,764,684 ordinary shares in the
    Company. The executive directors of the Company are amongst the potential
    beneficiaries under these trusts and are therefore regarded for Companies 
    Act purposes as being interested in the ordinary shares in the Company held
    in them.


2.  Mr Robert E Diamond Jr, a director of the Company notified the Company on 9
    March 2007 that, on 7 March 2007, he transferred 100 ordinary shares in the
    Company as a gift for nil consideration. The revised total shareholding for
    Mr Diamond following the transaction is 2,731,482 ordinary shares.




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