Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
14 March 2008


                                                                   14 March 2008



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



1.  The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit 
    Trust (the 'ESAS Trust') notified Barclays PLC ('the Company') on 13 March 
    2008 that it had on 12 March 2008 exercised its discretion and released
    shares following provisional allocations made by the trustee over the 
    Company's ordinary shares to participants in the Executive Share Award 
    Scheme ('ESAS'). Of these shares, the following were released to directors 
    and PDMRs of the Company:

+----------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
|Directors/PDMRs |Shares        |Shares sold   |Price per     |Shares        |
|                |released      |on behalf of  |share (pence) |retained by   |
|                |to Director/  |Director/PDMR |              |Director/PDMR |
|                |PDMR          |to satisfy    |              |              |
|                |              |withholding   |              |              |
|                |              |liabilities   |              |              |
|                |              |              |              |              |
+----------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
|Mr RE Diamond Jr|   1,197,379  |    506,600   |     460.50   |     690,779  |
+----------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
|Mr GA Hoffman   |      24,291  |      9,960   |     460.50   |      14,331  |
+----------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
|Mr JS Varley    |      29,261  |     11,998   |     460.50   |      17,263  |
+----------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
|Mr PT Idzik     |     171,501  |     70,316   |     460.50   |     101,185  |
+----------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+

2.  The independent trustee of the ESAS Trust notified the Company on 13 March 
    2008 that it had on 12 March 2008 granted rights in the form of nil cost 
    options to the directors and PDMRs of the Company listed below under the 
    ESAS, to acquire ordinary shares in the Company. The ESAS options are
    exercisable from grant until 7 March 2010 and are granted over a proportion 
    of the shares which were provisionally allocated by the trustee under ESAS 
    on 7 March 2005 to the directors and PDMRs listed below.

    The number of shares under option includes an additional number of shares 
    which have been accrued in respect of dividends received by the trustee 
    since March 2005. The total exercise price payable on any exercise of an 
    ESAS option is £1.

    Director              Number of shares granted under option 
                          to Directors/PDMRs

    Mr GA Hoffman         64,896
    Mr JS Varley          103,243


3.  Appleby Nominees (Jersey) Limited notified the Company on 14 March 2008 
    that it had on 10 March 2008 exercised its discretion and allocated 
    reinvested dividend shares in Barclays PLC for the following directors/
    PDMRs at a price of 456.06p per share:

    Director             Shares allocated to Director/PDMR

    Mr RE Diamond Jr     56,261
    Mr PT Idzik          11,197


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

Director             Beneficial Holding

Mr RE Diamond Jr     4,787,495
Mr GA Hoffman        446,092
Mr JS Varley         487,913



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