Company: BCS
Filing Date: 2025-01-02
Form Type: 6-K
Source: 0001654954-25-000009
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Company: BARCLAYS PLC
Filing Date: 2025-01-02
Form: 6-K
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Exhibit No. 9

16 December 2024

<div align='center'>**Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them**</div>

Barclays PLC (the "Company") announces the following transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibility ("PDMRs") in ordinary shares of the Company with a nominal value of 25 pence each ("Shares").

| 1               |     Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / 
                                           person closely associated |                                                                    |           |           |
| a)              |                                                                Name |                                               C.S. Venkatakrishnan |           |           |
| 2               |                                         Reason for the notification |                                                                    |           |           |
| a)              |                                                     Position/status |                                              Group Chief Executive |           |           |
| b)              |                                     Initial notification /Amendment |                                               Initial notification |           |           |
| 3               |       Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, 
                     auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor |                                                                    |           |           |
| a)              |                                                                Name |                                                       Barclays PLC |           |           |
| b)              |                                                                 LEI |                                               213800LBQA1Y9L22JB70 |           |           |
| 4.1             |  Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each 
 type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; 
                    and (iv) each place where transactions have been 
                                                           conducted |                                                                    |           |           |
| a)              |                    Description of the financial instrument, type of 
                                                          instrument