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Barclays PLC08 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 Trustnotified Barclays PLC ("the Company") on 8 December 2006 that it had on 7December exercised its discretion and released a total of 63,816 ordinary sharesin 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. TheChairman and the executive Directors of the Company are amongst the potentialbeneficiaries under these trusts and are therefore regarded for Companies Actpurposes 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 December2006 that he had, on 7 December 2006, carried out the following transactions inthe 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 is2,000 ordinary shares. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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