Director Interests

Barclays PLC
03 October 2003

                                                                  3 October 2003


            Notification of directors' interests: Companies Act s329

The Company was notified on 2 October 2003 by the Administrators of the Dividend
Reinvestment Plan (the 'Plan') that on 1 October 2003 the following directors
had received ordinary shares in the Company by way of the Plan for the 2003
interim dividend at a price of 475.19p per share.  The number of shares received
by each director, together with their total beneficial interests following the
allotments are as follows:

Director               No. of shares received           Beneficial interests

M W Barrett                    3,975                           274,592

S G Russell                      33                            10,386


In addition to the interests shown above, the trustees of all the Barclays Group
employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 100,851,774 ordinary shares in
Barclays PLC. Sir Peter Middleton, Mr M W Barrett, Mr C J Lendrum and Mr J S
Varley, directors of Barclays PLC, are amongst the potential beneficiaries under
these trusts and are therefore regarded for Companies Act purposes as being
interested in the Barclays PLC ordinary shares held in them.



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