Director Shareholding

Barclays PLC
28 September 2004





                                                               28 September 2004

         Notification of directors' interests: Companies Act 1985 s.329

1.  The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit 
    Trust (the 'ESAS Trust') notified the Company on 27 September 2004 that it 
    had on 20 September 2004 exercised its discretion and released a total of 
    8,335 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC to participants in the Executive
    Share Award Scheme ('ESAS'). The participants to whom the shares were 
    released are not directors of Barclays PLC.

2.  The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Supplementary Trust 
    (the 'ESAS Supplementary Trust') notified the Company on 27 September 2004 
    that it had on 22 September 2004 exercised its discretion and released a 
    total of 49,895 shares in Barclays PLC. The participants to whom the shares 
    were released are not directors of Barclays PLC.

Following these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group employees'
benefit trusts hold a total of 113,907,786 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC.
Matthew Barrett, Chairman, and the executive directors of Barclays 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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