Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
17 October 2007


                                                                 17 October 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 16 October 2007 that
it had on 15 October 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 half
year ended 30 June 2007, for the following directors/Persons Discharging
Managerial Responsibility (PDMRs) at a price of 641.5000p per share:



Director/PDMR                  No. of shares received

G A Hoffman                    39
C G Lucas                      5
F F Seegers                    11
J S Varley                     39


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


Director         Beneficial Holding     Non-Beneficial Holding

G A Hoffman      431,436                -

C G Lucas        37,296                 -

F F Seegers      572,870                -

J S Varley       470,649                -






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