Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
13 March 2007


                                                                   13 March 2007



          Director/PDMR shareholding: Disclosure and Transparency 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 Barclays PLC ('the Company') on 12 March 
    2007 that it had between 5 March 2007 and 7 March 2007 exercised its 
    discretion and released a total of 56,062 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC 
    and between 5 March 2007 and 9 March 2007 it purchased 11,911,210 ordinary 
    shares in Barclays PLC at an average price of 711.23 pence per share. None 
    of the shares released were in respect of an award made to a director of 
    Barclays PLC.

2.  The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (PSP) Employees' Benefit 
    Trust (the 'PSP Trust') notified the Company on 12 March 2007 that it had 
    on 9 March 2007 exercised its discretion and purchased a total of 475,528 
    ordinary shares in Barclays PLC at a price of 736.00 pence per share.

3.  The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit 
    Trust notified Barclays PLC ('the Company') on 12 March that it had on 7 
    March 2007 exercised its discretion and released a total of 49,119 ordinary 
    shares in the Company to Mr G A Hoffman, a Director of the Company, as 
    follows:
    
    Share Scheme     Shares released     Shares sold on         Shares
                     to Director         behalf of Director     retained by 
                                                                Director

    ESAS 1998        18,538              7,601                  10,937
    ESAS 2001        30,581              12,539                 18,042


    The revised total shareholding for Mr Hoffman following these transactions 
    is 348,215 ordinary shares.

Following these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group employees'
benefit trusts hold a total of 216,095,360 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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