Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
25 April 2001


                                                                 25 April 2001



        Notification of directors' interests: Companies Act 1985 s.329

The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit Trust,
(the 'trust') notified the company on 24 April 2001 that it had on 23 April
2001 exercised its discretion and released 382 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC
to participants in the Executive Share Award Scheme ('ESAS').  None of the
shares were released to a director of Barclays PLC.


The ESAS 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 11,720,966 ordinary 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, Sir Andrew
Large, Mr C J Lendrum, Mr J M Stewart and Mr J S Varley.