Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
01 October 2007


                                                                  1 October 2007

                                  Barclays PLC



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


On 28 September 2007 the following Director of Barclays PLC ('the Company')
notified the Company that on 28 September 2007 he had purchased ordinary shares
in the Company as follows:

DIRECTOR       BARCLAYS PLC   PRICE PER SHARE             TOTAL            TOTAL
                     SHARES           (PENCE)        BENEFICIAL   NON-BENEFICIAL
                  PURCHASED                            INTEREST         INTEREST
                                                 FOLLOWING THIS   FOLLOWING THIS
                                                   NOTIFICATION     NOTIFICATION

Frits Seegers        50,000            594.00           572,859               -






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