Director/PDMR Shareholding

                                                                11 December 2015

BARCLAYS PLC

TRANSACTION BY PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Barclays PLC (the "Company") announces the following transaction by a person discharging managerial responsibility ("PDMR") on 7 December 2015 in ordinary shares of the Company with a nominal value of 25 pence each ("Shares").

Barclays Global Sharepurchase Plan ("Sharepurchase"), which is an all employee share plan, notified the Company on 10 December 2015 that it had purchased 2 Shares (including a matching Share) for Ashok Vaswani, which it now holds as bare trustee.  The market price of the Shares was £2.3027 and the place of trading was the London Stock Exchange.

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