Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
08 August 2005





                                                                   8 August 2005

         Notification of directors' interests: Companies Act 1985 s.329

On 5 August 2005 the following ordinary shares in Barclays PLC were purchased on
behalf of the following non-executive directors of Barclays PLC at a price of
579.00p per share. As disclosed in the Barclays Annual Report, these purchases
arise from the policy of using part of each director's fee to purchase shares in
Barclays PLC on the directors behalf which, together with reinvested dividends,
are retained for the director until they leave the Board.


DIRECTOR                        BARCLAYS PLC   TOTAL              TOTAL 
                                SHARES         BENEFICIAL         NON-BENEFICIAL  
                                PURCHASED      INTEREST           INTEREST
                                               FOLLOWING THIS     FOLLOWING THIS
                                               NOTIFICATION       NOTIFICATION

Sir David Arculus               1,204          19,770             -
Sir Richard Broadbent           974            6,022              -
Leigh Clifford                  880            3,460              -
Professor Dame Sandra Dawson    1,067          7,733              -
Sir Andrew Likierman            911            3,628              -
Sir Nigel Rudd                  1,284          16,788             -
Stephen Russell                 1,184          16,142             -
Robert Steel                    321            100,321            -
John Sunderland                 308            8,308              -






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