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Barclays PLC17 November 2005 17 November 2005 Director/PDMR shareholding: Disclosure Rules 3.1.4R(1)(a) and 3.1.4R(1)(b) 1. The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit Trust (the "ESAS Trust") notified the Company on 17 November 2005 that it had on 17 November 2005 exercised its discretion and released a total of 219,526 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC to the following participant in the Executive Share Award Scheme ("ESAS"). The shares were released following a provisional allocation made by the trustee over Barclays PLC ordinary shares. The following shares were released to a director of Barclays PLC: Director Shares released Shares sold on Price Shares to director behalf of director per share retained (pence) by director Mr RE Diamond Jr 219,526 72,553 601.5 146,973 The revised total shareholding for Mr RE Diamond Jr following these transactionsis as follows: Director Beneficial Holding Non-Beneficial Holding Mr RE Diamond Jr 1,504,291 - Following these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group employees'benefit trusts hold a total of 139,790,765 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC.Mr RE Diamond, the Chairman and the executive directors of Barclays are amongstthe potential beneficiaries under these trusts and are therefore regarded forCompanies Act purposes as being interested in the Barclays PLC ordinary sharesheld in them. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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