Director Shareholding

Barclays PLC 12 March 2001 12 March 2001 Notification of directors' interests: Companies Act 1985 s.329 The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit Trust (the 'ESAS trust') notified the Company on 9 March 2001 that they had on 8 March 2001 released 874 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC to a participant in the Barclays Executive Share Award Scheme. The participant to whom shares were released is not a director of Barclays PLC. The ESAS trust is a discretionary trust for the benefit of employees and former employees (and their families) of Barclays Bank PLC and its subsidiaries. Following this transaction, the trustees of all the Barclays Group employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 12,949,085 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC in which the following directors of Barclays PLC had an interest as potential beneficiaries: Sir Peter Middleton, Mr M W Barrett, Sir Andrew Large, Mr C J Lendrum, Mr J M Stewart and Mr J S Varley.

Companies

Barclays (BARC)
UK 100