Director's Notification of Dealing in Shares

Barclays PLC
10 August 2000


   NOTIFICATION OF INTEREST: COMPANIES ACT 1985 s.329
                            
The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (PSP &
ESOS) Employees' Benefit Trust (the 'trust') notified
Barclays PLC on 10 August 2000 that they had on 8 August
2000 released 47,689 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC to
participants who exercised their awards under the
Barclays Group Performance Share Plan ('PSP').

The trust is a discretionary trust for the benefit of
employees and former employees (and their families) of
Barclays Bank PLC and its subsidiaries.  None of the
above transactions were in respect of awards made to any
director of Barclays PLC.

Following these transactions, the trustees of all the
Barclays Group employees' benefit trusts hold a total of
7,642,823 shares in Barclays PLC in which the following
directors of Barclays PLC have an interest as potential
beneficiaries: Sir Peter Middleton, Mr M W Barrett, Mr D P
Allvey, Sir Andrew Large, Mr C J Lendrum and Mr J S Varley.