Directors' Interest

Barclays PLC 2 October 2001 2 October 2001 Notification of directors' interests: Companies Act s329 The Company was notified on 1 October 2001 by the Administrators of the Dividend Reinvestment Plan (the 'Plan') that on 1 October 2001 the following directors had received ordinary shares in the Company by way of the Plan for the 2001 interim dividend at a price of 1877p per share. The number of shares received by each director, together with their beneficial interests following the allotments, are as follows: Director No. of shares received Beneficial interests M W Barrett 313 26,089 P J Jarvis 23 4,345 S G Russell 5 1,264 The Company was notified on 1 October 2001 by the Plan Manager of the WPM Barclays Share Single Company PEP (the 'PEP') that on 1 October 2001, Mr J M Stewart and his wife, Mrs S A Stewart, had received a total of 3 ordinary shares in the Company as a result of the 2001 interim dividend on the shares held in their PEPs being reinvested at a price of 1847p per share. Following these transactions, Mr J M Stewart, a director of the Company, has a total beneficial interest in 1,006 ordinary shares in the Company. Mr M W Barrett and Mr J M Stewart, together with other directors and senior executives of Barclays PLC and Barclays Bank PLC, have interests as potential beneficiaries in 10,435,860 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC held by the trustees of all the Barclays Group employees' benefit trusts. As a participant in the Woolwich Sharesave Schemes Mr J M Stewart, together with other directors and senior executives of Woolwich plc, have interests as potential discretionary beneficiaries in 470,799 Barclays PLC ordinary shares held by the trustee of the Woolwich Qualifying Employee Share Ownership Trust.

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