Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
05 December 2006


                                                                 5 December 2006



   Director/PDMR shareholding: Disclosure 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 4 December 2006 that
it had on 29 November 2006 exercised its discretion and released a total of
68,258 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC and on 27 November 2006 it purchased
1,098,899 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC at a price of 693.26 pence per share.
None of the shares purchased 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 169,541,957 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC. The
Chairman and 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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