Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 0858U

Barclays PLC

15 December 2011

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

1. The trustee of the Barclays Group Sharepurchase Plan ("Sharepurchase"), an HM Revenue and Customs approved all employee share plan, informed Barclays PLC (the "Company") on 14 December 2011 that, on 13 December 2011 it had acquired, and now held as bare trustee of Sharepurchase, the following ordinary shares in the Company, following the re-investment of the interim dividend for the year ended 31 December 2011, for the following Directors/PDMRs at a price of 185.48 pence per share:

Director/PDMR	No. of shares received
C Lucas	16
M Harding	11
R Le Blanc	2

2. The nominee of the Barclays ESAS Nominee Arrangement confirmed to the Company on 14 December 2011 that the independent trustee of ESAS had on 9 December 2011 exercised its discretion and re-invested an amount equal to the interim dividend for the year ended 31 December 2011 in ordinary shares of the Company at a price of 190.35 pence per share for the following Directors/PDMRs. The number of shares received is as follows:

Director/PDMR	No. of shares received
R E Diamond Jr	8,200
J del Missier	5,908
T Kalaris	3,131
A Jenkins	395
R Le Blanc	385
R Ricci	1,844

The number of shares held in the Barclays ESAS Nominee Arrangement form a proportion of the shares which were provisionally allocated by the trustee under ESAS on 21 March 2006 and 21 March 2007.

3. The independent nominee of the Barclays Corporate Nominee Arrangementnotified the Company on 14 December 2011 that it had on 9 December 2011 exercised its discretion and re-invested the interim dividend for the year ended 31 December 2011 in ordinary shares of the Company at a price of 190.35 pence per share for the following Directors/PDMRs. The number of shares received is as follows:

Director/PDMR	No. of shares received
C Lucas	451
R Le Blanc	2,275

4. The Administrators of the Dividend Reinvestment Plan (the "Plan") notified the Company on 14 December 2011 that on 9 December 2011, following the re-investment of the interim dividend for the year ended 31 December 2011, the following PDMRs and their connected persons had received ordinary shares in the Company under the Plan at a price of 187.18 pence per share. The number of shares received is as follows: