Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
02 March 2007


                                                                    2 March 2007


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

Mr J S Varley, a Director of Barclays PLC ('the Company'), notified the Company
on 1 March 2007 that, on 1 March 2007, he had exercised Sharesave options over
4,096 ordinary shares in the Company at a price of 411.00p per share.

The revised total shareholding for Mr Varley following this transaction is
379,182 ordinary shares.



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