Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
06 March 2007


                                                                    6 March 2007



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


The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit Trust
(the 'ESAS Trust') notified Barclays PLC ('the Company') on 5 March 2007 that it
had between 27 February 2007 and 28 February 2007 exercised its discretion and
released a total of 45,821 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC and between 26
February 2007 and 2 March 2007 it purchased 22,664,616 ordinary shares in
Barclays PLC at an average price of 729.25 pence per share. None of the shares
released were in respect of an award made to a director of Barclays PLC.

Following these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group employees'
benefit trusts hold a total of 203,764,684 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC. The
executive directors of Barclays PLC 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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