Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
10 October 2005





                                                                 10 October 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 October 2005 that it had on 7
October 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 562.50p per share:

Director/PDMR         Number of Shares

Mr G A Hoffman        22
Mr D L Roberts        22
Mr J S Varley         22
Mr L C Dickinson      18
Mr M Merson           22

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 October 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       172,486                -
Mr D L Roberts       76,956                 -
Mr J S Varley        359,992                -

In addition to the interests shown above, the trustees of all the Barclays Group
employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 147,622,580 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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