Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
08 November 2005





                                                                 8 November 2005

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

1.  The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit 
    Trust (the 'ESAS Trust') notified the Company on 7 November 2005 that it
    had between 1 November and 4 November 2005 exercised its discretion and 
    released a total of 79,305 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC. None of the 
    shares purchased or released were in respect of an award made to a director 
    of Barclays PLC.

2.  The trustee of the Barclays Group Sharepurchase Plan, an Inland Revenue 
    approved all-employee share plan, informed the Company on 7 November 2005 
    that it had on 7 November 2005 purchased, and now held as bare trustee of
    the Barclays Group Sharepurchase Plan, the following ordinary shares in the
    capital of Barclays PLC for the following directors/Persons Discharging
    Managerial Responsibility (PDMRs) at a price of 583.00p per share:

    Director/PDMR         Number of Shares
    Mr G A Hoffman        21
    Mr D L Roberts        21
    Mr J S Varley         21
    Mr L C Dickinson      16
    Mr M Merson           22

    The Barclays Group Sharepurchase Plan now includes Matching Shares provided 
    by the Company on a 1:1 basis up to the first £600 per annum invested by 
    the participant under the Plan. The number of shares purchased on 
    7 November 2005 for each director/PDMR above includes the Matching Shares.

    The revised total shareholding for each director following these 
    transactions is as follows:

    Director           Beneficial Holding         Non Beneficial
                                                  Holding

    Mr G A Hoffman     172,687                    -
    Mr D L Roberts     76,998                     -
    Mr J S Varley      360,034                    -

In addition to the interests shown above, the trustees of all the Barclays Group
employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 150,367,423 ordinary shares in
Barclays PLC. Matthew W Barrett, Chairman and the executive directors of
Barclays are amongst the potential beneficiaries under these trusts and are
therefore regarded for Companies Act purposes as being interested in the
Barclays PLC ordinary shares held in them.




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