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Barclays PLC08 December 2005 8 December 2005 Director/PDMR shareholding: Disclosure Rules 3.1.4R(1)(a) and 3.1.4R(1)(b) The trustee of the Barclays Group Sharepurchase Plan, an Inland Revenue approvedall-employee share plan, informed the Company on 7 December 2005 that it had on7 December 2005 purchased, and now held as bare trustee of the Barclays GroupSharepurchase Plan, the following ordinary shares in the capital of Barclays PLCfor the following directors/Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility(PDMRs) at a price of 602.00p per share: Director/PDMR Number of SharesMr G A Hoffman 21Mr D L Roberts 21Mr J S Varley 21Mr L C Dickinson 16Mr M Merson 21 The Barclays Group Sharepurchase Plan now includes Matching Shares provided bythe Company on a 1:1 basis up to the first £600 per annum invested by theparticipant under the Plan. The number of shares purchased on 7 December 2005for each director/PDMR above includes the Matching Shares. The revised total shareholding for each director following these transactions isas follows: Director Beneficial Holding Non Beneficial Holding Mr G A Hoffman 172,708 -Mr D L Roberts 77,019 -Mr J S Varley 360,055 - In addition to the interests shown above, the trustees of all the Barclays Groupemployees' benefit trusts hold a total of 149,687,414 ordinary shares inBarclays PLC. Matthew W Barrett, Chairman and the executive directors ofBarclays are amongst the potential beneficiaries under these trusts and aretherefore regarded for Companies Act purposes as being interested in theBarclays PLC ordinary shares held in them. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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