Director/PDMR Shareholding

9 January 2013

Barclays PLC (the "Company")

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

The trustee of the Barclays Group Sharepurchase Plan ("Sharepurchase"), an HM Revenue and Customs approved all employee share plan, informed the Company on 8 January 2013 that, on 7 January 2013 it had purchased, and now held as bare trustee of Sharepurchase, 46 ordinary shares in the Company at a price of £2.7049 per share, for Ashok Vaswani, a Person Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR").