Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
01 March 2006





                                                                    1 March 2006

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

Mr L C Dickinson, a Person Discharging Managerial Responsibility of Barclays PLC
('the Company'), notified the Company on 28 February 2006 that, on 27 February
2006, he had exercised the following options:

Scheme                                             Number          Option
                                                   of shares       price (pence)

Barclays PLC Incentive Share Option Plan (ISOP)    30,000          534.00
Barclays PLC Incentive Share Option Plan (ISOP)    32,000          520.00
Barclays PLC 1986 Renewed 
Executive Share Option Scheme (ESOS)               20,000          445.00


PDMR             Options         Shares sold on    Price           Shares
                 Exercised       behalf of PDMR    per share       retained 
                                                   (pence)         by PDMR

L C Dickinson    82,000          69,966            671.00          12,034




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