Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
08 December 2005





                                                                 8 December 2005

   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 Inland Revenue approved
all-employee share plan, informed the Company on 7 December 2005 that it had on
7 December 2005 purchased, and now held as bare trustee of the Barclays Group
Sharepurchase Plan, the following ordinary shares in the capital of Barclays PLC
for the following directors/Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility
(PDMRs) at a price of 602.00p per share:

Director/PDMR          Number of Shares
Mr G A Hoffman         21
Mr D L Roberts         21
Mr J S Varley          21
Mr L C Dickinson       16
Mr M Merson            21

The Barclays Group Sharepurchase Plan now 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 December 2005
for each director/PDMR above includes the 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     172,708                  -
Mr D L Roberts     77,019                   -
Mr J S Varley      360,055                  -

In addition to the interests shown above, the trustees of all the Barclays Group
employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 149,687,414 ordinary shares in
Barclays PLC. Matthew W Barrett, Chairman and 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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