Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
2 April 2001

                                                                  2 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 30 March 2001 that it had on 29 March 2001 exercised its discretion and
released 1,796 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC to a participant in the
Executive Share Award Scheme ('ESAS'); and

on 2 April 2001 that it had on 30 March 2001 exercised its discretion and
released 1,519 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 11,778,054 ordinary shares in
Barclays PLC in which the following directors of Barclays PLC had 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.