Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
25 April 2007


                                                                   25 April 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 24 April 2007 that it had on 10 April 2007 purchased, and now held
as bare trustee of the Plan, the following ordinary shares in the capital of the
Company for the following directors who are Persons Discharging Managerial
Responsibility (PDMRs) at a price of 736.50p per share:

Director/PDMR      Number of Shares

Mr G A Hoffman     17
Mr J S Varley      17

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 10 April 2007 for each director/PDMR above includes any
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     360,594                 -
Mr J S Varley      379,216                 -






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