Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
18 October 2000


            NOTIFICATION OF INTEREST: COMPANIES ACT 1985 s.329

The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit Trust,
(the 'trust') notified the Company on 17 October 2000 that they had on 16
October 2000 released 4,830 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC to a participant
in the Executive Share Award Scheme.  The participant to whom shares were
released is not a director of Barclays PLC.

The trust is a discretionary trust for the benefit of employees and former
employees (and their families) of Barclays Bank PLC and its subsidiaries.

Following the transaction, the trustees of all the Barclays Group employees'
benefit trusts hold a total of 7,867,626 shares in Barclays PLC in which the
following directors of Barclays PLC have an interest as potential
beneficiaries: Sir Peter Middleton, Mr M W Barrett, Mr D P Allvey, Sir Andrew
Large, Mr C J Lendrum and Mr J S Varley.