Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
09 April 2008


                                                                    9 April 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 8 April 
    2008 that it had on 31 March 2008 exercised its discretion and released
    shares over the Company's ordinary shares to participants in the Executive 
    Share Award Scheme ('ESAS'). Of these shares, the following were released 
    to a PDMR of the Company:

   +--------------+--------------+-------------+------------+---------------+
   |PDMR          |Shares        |Shares sold  |Price per   |Shares retained|
   |              |released      |on behalf    |share       |by PDMR        |
   |              |to PDMR       |of PDMR to   |(pence)     |               |
   |              |              |satisfy      |            |               |
   |              |              |withholding  |            |               |
   |              |              |liabilities  |            |               |
   |              |              |             |            |               |
   +--------------+--------------+-------------+------------+---------------+
   |Mr PT Idzik   |   546,732    |   224,497   |  448.8781  |    322,235    |
   +--------------+--------------+-------------+------------+---------------+


2.  Following a recommendation made by the Company on the 19 February 2008, the 
    independent trustee of the Barclays Group (PSP) Employees' Benefit Trust 
    (the 'PSP Trust') notified the Company on 9 April 2008 that on 20 March 
    2008 it had resolved to grant the following awards under PSP to Directors
    of the Company:

   +-----------------+-----------------------+------------------+
   |Director         |Allocation of          |Maximum number    |
   |                 |performance shares (a) |potentially       |
   |                 |(a)                    |releasable        |
   +-----------------+-----------------------+------------------+
   |Mr RE Diamond Jr |         659,340       |    1,978,020     |
   +-----------------+-----------------------+------------------+
   |Mr GA Hoffman    |         137,362       |      412,086     |
   +-----------------+-----------------------+------------------+
   |Mr CG Lucas      |         175,824       |      527,472     |
   +-----------------+-----------------------+------------------+
   |Mr FF Seegers    |         351,648       |    1,054,944     |
   +-----------------+-----------------------+------------------+
   |Mr JS Varley     |         263,736       |      791,208     |
   +-----------------+-----------------------+------------------+


    Note:

    (a) Under PSP, awards are granted as a provisional allocation and do not
        give rise to any entitlement to the shares. At the third anniversary, 
        shares may be released by the trustee subject to performance conditions 
        being satisfied.

    The effective date of the grant of the awards was 20 March 2008 and the
    calculation of the initial award allocation was based on a share price of 
    £4.55, which was the average price paid for the Company's shares by the 
    trustee between 19 February 2008 and 12 March 2008. No consideration was 
    paid for the grant of any award.




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