Director Shareholding

Barclays PLC
10 May 2005





                                                                     10 May 2005

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

The trustee of the Barclays Group Sharepurchase Plan, an Inland Revenue approved
all-employee share plan, informed the Company on 9 May 2005 that it had on 9 May
2005 purchased, and now held as bare trustee of the Barclays Group Sharepurchase
Plan, the following ordinary shares in the capital of Barclays PLC for the
following directors at a price of 548.50p per share:

Director             Number of Shares
Mr J S Varley        46
Mr D L Roberts       46
Mr G A Hoffman       46

The Barclays Group Sharepurchase Plan now includes Matching Shares provided by
the Company on a 1:1 basis up to the first £600 per annum invested by the
director under the Plan. The number of shares purchased on 9 May 2005 for each
director above includes 23 Matching Shares.

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

Director             Beneficial Holding         Non Beneficial
                                                Holding
Mr J S Varley        351,095                    -
Mr D L Roberts       70,720                     -
Mr G A Hoffman       178,580                    -

In addition to the interests shown above, the trustees of all the Barclays Group
employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 134,332,615 ordinary shares in
Barclays PLC. Matthew W 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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