Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
08 December 2006



                                                                 8 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
notified Barclays PLC ('the Company') on 8 December 2006 that it had on 7
December exercised its discretion and released a total of 63,816 ordinary shares
in the Company to Mr M W Barrett, a Director of the Company, as follows:

Director          Shares released   Shares sold on       Price       Shares
                  to Director       behalf of Director   per share   retained
                                                         (pence)     by Director

Mr M W Barrett    63,816            63,816               710.5       0


Following this transaction, the trustees of all the Barclays Group employees'
benefit trusts hold a total of 169,478,141 ordinary shares in the Company. The
Chairman and the executive Directors of the Company are amongst the potential
beneficiaries under these trusts and are therefore regarded for Companies Act
purposes as being interested in the Company's ordinary shares held in them.

Mr M W Barrett, a Director of the Company, notified the Company on 8 December
2006 that he had, on 7 December 2006, carried out the following transactions in
the Company's ordinary shares:


1.  Exercise of an option over 2,000,000 shares granted under the Barclays
    PLC Incentive Share Option Plan (ISOP) at an exercise price of 520.00 pence 
    per share; and

2.  Sale of 2,315,041 ordinary shares at a price of 710.5 pence per share.


The revised total shareholding for Mr Barrett following these transactions is
2,000 ordinary shares.








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