Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
26 March 2007


                                                                   26 March 2007


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


1. Following a recommendation made by Barclays PLC ('the Company') on the 20
February 2007, the independent trustee of the Barclays Group (PSP) Employees'
Benefit Trust (the 'PSP Trust') notified the Company on 26 March 2007 that on 22
March 2007 it had resolved to grant the following awards under PSP to Directors
of the Company:

Director              Allocation of performance      Maximum number potentially
                      shares (a)                     releasable

Robert E Diamond Jr                     934,516                       2,803,548
Gary Hoffman                             85,266                         255,798
Frederik Seegers                        136,426                         409,278
John Varley                             163,710                         491,130


Note:

(a) Under PSP, awards are granted as a provisional allocation and do not give 
    rise to any entitlement to the shares. At the third anniversary, shares may
    be released by the trustee subject to performance conditions being 
    satisfied.

The effective date of the grant of the awards was 21 March 2007 and the
calculation of the initial award allocation was based on a share price of £7.33,
which was the average price paid for the Company's shares by the trustee between
20 February 2007 and 12 March 2007. No consideration was paid for the grant of
any award.

2. The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit Trust
   (the 'ESAS Trust') notified the Company on 26 March 2007 that it had between 
   19 March 2007 and 23 March 2007 exercised its discretion and released a total 
   of 215,502 ordinary shares in the Company and between 19 March 2007 and 23 
   March 2007 it purchased 17,744 ordinary shares in the Company at an average 
   price of 733 pence per share. None of the shares released were in respect of 
   an award made to a Director of the Company.

   Following these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group 
   employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 208,646,931 ordinary shares in the 
   Company. 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.



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