Directors' Dealings

Barclays PLC
24 December 1999


NOTIFICATION OF INTEREST: COMPANIES ACT 1985 s.329

The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (PSP & ESOS) Employees' Benefit
Trust (the 'trust') notified the Company on 24 December 1999 that, on 23
December 1999, it released 6,364 Barclays PLC ordinary shares to participants
who exercised their awards under the Barclays Group Performance Share Plan
('PSP'). None of the shares were released to a director of Barclays PLC.

The trust is a discretionary trust for the benefit of employees and former
employees (and, in each case, their families) of Barclays Bank PLC and its
subsidiaries.  Following these transactions, the trustee of all the Barclays
Group employees' benefit trusts holds a total of 9,172,308 shares in Barclays
PLC in which the following directors of Barclays PLC have an interest as
potential beneficiaries: Mr D P Allvey, Mr M W Barrett, Sir Andrew Large, Mr C
J Lendrum, Sir Peter Middleton, and Mr J S Varley.