Company: BCS
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0000312069-25-000114
Chunk: 624

Company: BARCLAYS PLC
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form: 20-F
Chunk 624
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95 | 0.88 |
| Less: forfeited in the year                       |         -23,813 |  -41,309 |       -15,164 |  -29,424 |                                1.19 | 1.20 |
| Less: expired in the year                         |               — |        — |        -2,253 |   -3,072 |                                1.25 | 1.42 |
| Outstanding at end of year                        |         504,825 |  495,724 |       240,029 |  288,755 |                                1.19 | 1.06 |
| Of which exercisable:                             |               — |        — |        25,164 |   67,967 |                                1.23 | 0.87 |

Notes:

1 Options/award granted over Barclays PLC shares.

2 Weighted average exercise price is not applicable for SVP and DSVP awards as these are not share option schemes.

3 The number of awards within Others at the end of the year principally relates to Sharesave (number of awards exercisable at end of year was 5,343,579 ). The weighted average exercise

price relates to Sharesave.

Awards and options granted under the Group’s share plans may be satisfied using new issue shares, treasury shares and market

purchase shares. Awards granted under the DSVP may be satisfied using market purchase shares only.

There were no significant modifications to the share-based payments arrangements in 2024 and 2023 .

As at 31 December 2024 , the total liability arising from cash-settled share-based payments transactions was £ 11m ( 2023 : £ 5m ).

Holdings of Barclays PLC shares and hedges

Various employee benefit trusts established by the Group hold shares in Barclays PLC to meet obligations under the Barclays share-

based payment schemes. The total number of Barclays shares held in these employee benefit trusts at 31 December 2024 was 19m

( 2023 : 19m ). Dividend rights have been waived on all these shares. The total market value of the shares held in trust based on the year

end share price of £ 2.68 ( 2023 : £ 1.54 ) was £ 50m ( 2023 : £ 29m ). For accounting of treasury shares, see Note 28.

The Group has entered into physically settled forward contracts to hedge the settlement of certain share-based payment schemes.