Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
10 July 2007


                                                                    10 July 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 ('the Plan'), an HM Revenue
and Customs approved all-employee share plan, informed Barclays PLC ('the
Company') on 10 July 2007 that it had on 9 July 2007 purchased, and now held as
bare trustee of the Plan, the following ordinary shares in the capital of the
Company for the following director who is a Person Discharging Managerial
Responsibility (PDMRs) at a price of 720.50p per share:


Director/PDMR     Number of Shares

Mr C G Lucas      291


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 9 July 2007 for the director/PDMR above includes any
Matching Shares.


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


Director         Beneficial Holding     Non Beneficial Holding


Mr C G Lucas     2,291                  -




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