Director Shareholding

Barclays PLC
08 March 2005





                                                                    8 March 2005

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


1.  The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit 
    Trust notified the Company on 7 March 2005 that it had on 7 March 2005 
    granted rights in the form of nil cost options to the directors of Barclays 
    PLC listed below under the Barclays PLC Executive Share Award Scheme 
    ('ESAS'), to acquire ordinary shares in Barclays PLC. The ESAS options are 
    exercisable from grant until 25 February 2007 and have been granted over a 
    proportion of the shares which were originally provisionally allocated by 
    the trustee under ESAS on 25 February 2002 to the directors listed below.

    The number of shares under option includes an additional number of shares 
    which have accrued in respect of dividends received by the trustee since 
    February 2002. The total exercise price payable on any exercise of an ESAS 
    option is £1.

    Director           Number of Shares Granted under Option to Directors
    Mr M W Barrett     67,159
    Mr J S Varley      30,293
    Mr G A Hoffman     17,782
    Mr N Kheraj        242,290
    Mr D L Roberts     17,782

2.  The trustee of the Barclays Group Sharepurchase Plan informed the Company on
    7 March 2005 that it had on 7 March 2005 purchased, and now held as bare 
    trustee under the Barclays Group Sharepurchase Plan, the following ordinary 
    shares in the capital of Barclays PLC for the following directors at a price
    of 572.50p per share:

    Director         Number of Shares
    Mr J S Varley    22
    Mr G A Hoffman   22
    Mr D L Roberts   22

    The revised total shareholding for each director following these 
    transactions is as follows:

    Director             Beneficial Holding         Non Beneficial
                                                        Holding
    Mr J S Varley        329,850                          -
    Mr G A Hoffman       167,923                          -
    Mr D L Roberts       63,390                           -

In addition to the interests shown above, the trustees of all the Barclays Group
employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 151,440,275 ordinary shares in
Barclays PLC. Mr 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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