Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC 17 November 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 17 November 2000 that they had on 16 November 2000 released 3,252 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 these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 7,876,020 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.

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