Director Shareholding

Barclays PLC
06 October 2004


                                                                  6 October 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 5 October 2004 that it had 
     between 29 September 2004 and 1 October 2004 exercised its discretion and 
     released a total of 1,006,805 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 5 October 2004 
     that it had on 30 September 2004 exercised its discretion and released a 
     total of 1,999 ordinary 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 112,898,982 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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