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.