Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
02 November 2007


                                                                 2 November 2007

                                  Barclays PLC

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

On 2 November 2007 the following Director of Barclays PLC ('the Company')
notified the Company that on 2 November 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        72,000           551.0          644,870                -
Frits Seegers        55,000           544.5          699,870                -


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