Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
13 September 2000


             NOTIFICATION OF INTEREST: COMPANIES ACT 1985 s.329

The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (PSP & ESOS) Employees' Benefit
Trust (the 'trust') notified Barclays PLC on 12 September 2000 that they had
on 11 September 2000 released 3,163 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC to a
participant who exercised their award under the Barclays Group Performance
Share Plan ('PSP').  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 this transaction, the trustees of all the Barclays Group employees'
benefit trusts hold a total of 7,565,192 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.