Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC 6 November 2000 Notification of directors' interests: Companies Act s329 The trustees of the Barclays Qualifying Employee Share Ownership Trust (the 'Quest') notified the Company on 3 November 2000 that they subscribed for a total of 212,086 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 3 November 2000 at a price of 1965p per share. Following this transaction, the trustees of the Quest held a total of 212,086 Barclays PLC ordinary shares in which the following directors of Barclays PLC had an interest as potential beneficiaries: Sir Peter Middleton, Mr M W Barrett, Mr D P Allvey, Mr C J Lendrum, Mr J M Stewart and Mr J S Varley. (The Quest is a trust established to distribute shares to employees of the Barclays Group on the exercise of options granted under the Barclays PLC 1991 SAYE Share Option Scheme (the 'Scheme')). The trustees of the Quest also notified the Company on 3 November 2000 that they had transferred 212,086 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 3 November 2000 to participants in the Scheme following the exercise of their options. Following this transaction, each of the directors listed above ceased to have an interest in such shares.

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