Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
22 February 2006





                                                                22 February 2006

         Notification of directors' interests: Companies Act 1985 s.329

On 21 February 2006 the following ordinary shares in Barclays PLC were purchased
on behalf of the following non-executive directors of Barclays PLC at a price of
644.00p per share. As disclosed in the Barclays Annual Report, these purchases
arise from the policy of using part of each director's fee to purchase shares in
Barclays PLC on the directors' behalf which, together with reinvested dividends,
are retained for the director until they leave the Board.


DIRECTOR                        BARCLAYS PLC    TOTAL            TOTAL
                                SHARES          BENEFICIAL       NON-BENEFICIAL 
                                PURCHASED       INTEREST         INTEREST
                                                FOLLOWING THIS   FOLLOWING THIS
                                                NOTIFICATION     NOTIFICATION


Sir David Arculus               1,084           20,854           -
Sir Richard Broadbent           946             7,014            -
Leigh Clifford                  864             4,324            -
Dr Danie Cronje                 669             2,669            -
Professor Dame Sandra Dawson    983             8,805            -
Sir Andrew Likierman            926             4,554            -
Sir Nigel Rudd                  1,083           17,871           -
Stephen Russell                 1,060           17,281           -
Robert Steel                    811             101,132          -
John Sunderland                 882             9,190            -






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