Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
7 June 2001


                                                                   7 June 2001



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


The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit Trust,
(the 'ESAS trust') notified the company on 6 June 2001 that it had on 5 June
2001 exercised its discretion and released 1,049 ordinary shares in Barclays
PLC to a participant in the Executive Share Award Scheme ('ESAS').

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.

None of these shares were transferred to a Director of Barclays PLC.

Following this transaction, the trustees of all the Barclays Group employees'
benefit trusts hold a total of 9,497,279 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC.  Sir
Peter Middleton, Mr M W Barrett, Sir Andrew Large, Mr C J Lendrum, Mr J M
Stewart and Mr J S Varley, Directors of Barclays PLC, are amongst the
potential beneficiaries under these trusts and are therefore regarded for
Companies Act purposes as being interested in the Barclays PLC ordinary shares
held in them.