Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
16 March 2007


                                                                   16 March 2007



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

1.  The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit 
    Trust (the 'ESAS Trust') notified the Company on 15 March 2007 that it
    had on 13 March 2007 exercised its discretion and purchased a total of
    12,043,281 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC at an average price of 719.14p 
    per share and on 13 March 2007 released a total of 27,438,156 ordinary 
    shares in Barclays PLC to participants in the Executive Share Award Scheme 
    ('ESAS'). The shares were released following provisional allocations made 
    by the trustee over Barclays PLC ordinary shares to participants in the 
    ESAS. Of these shares, the following were released to directors and PDMRs 
    of Barclays PLC:

    Directors           Shares           Shares sold on          Price per    Shares retained
    /PDMRS              released         behalf of               share        by Director/PDMR
                        to Director/     directors to 
                        PDMRs            satisfy withholding 
                                         liabilities

    Mr N Kheraj         285,459          117,039                 715.25       168,420
    Mr RE Diamond Jr    1,179,477        499,026                 715.25       680,451
    Mr GA Hoffman       20,954           8,592                   715.25       12,362
    Mr JS Varley        35,693           14,635                  715.25       21,058
    Mr P Idzik          180,417          73,972                  715.25       106,445


2.  The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit 
    Trust (the 'ESAS Trust') notified the Company on 15 March 2007 that it
    had on 13 March 2007 granted rights in the form of nil cost options to the
    directors and PDMRs of Barclays PLC listed below under the Barclays PLC
    Executive Share Award Scheme ('ESAS'), to acquire ordinary shares in 
    Barclays PLC. The ESAS options are exercisable from grant until 5 March 
    2009 and are granted over a proportion of shares which were originally
    provisionally allocated by the trustee under ESAS on 5 March 2004 to the
    directors and PDMRs listed below.

    The number of shares under option includes an additional number of shares 
    which have been accrued in respect of dividends received by the trustee 
    since March 2004. The total exercise price payable on any exercise of an 
    ESAS option is £1.

    Director            Number of shares granted under option to Directors/PDMRs

    Mr GA Hoffman       33,854
    Mr N Kheraj         210,557
    Mr JS Varley        39,220


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

Director                Beneficial Holding

Mr N Kheraj             311,062
Mr RE Diamond Jr        3,411,933
Mr GA Hoffman           360,577
Mr JS Varley            400,257


3.  The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (PSP) Employees' Benefit 
    Trust (the 'PSP Trust') notified the Company on 15 March 2007 that it had 
    on 13 March 2007 exercised its discretion and purchased a total of 8,312,808
    ordinary shares in Barclays PLC.


Following these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group employees'
benefit trusts hold a total of 209,013,293 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC. 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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