Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC 15 January 2001 15th January 2001 Notification of directors' interests: Companies Act s329 The trustees of the Barclays Qualifying Employee Share Ownership Trust (the 'Quest') notified the Company on 12 January 2001 that they subscribed for a total of 106,313 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 12 January 2001 at a price of 2116p per share. Following this transaction, the trustees of the Quest held a total of 106,313 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 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 12 January 2001 that they had transferred 106,313 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 12 January 2001 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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