Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
23 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 20 October 2000 that they had on 19
October 2000 released 14,679 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC to participants
in the Executive Share Award Scheme.  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 their families) of Barclays Bank PLC and its subsidiaries.

Following these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group
employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 7,852,842 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.