Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
18 June 2001

                                                                  18 June 2001

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

1.       The independent trustees of the Barclays Group (PSP & ESOS) Trust
(the 'trust') notified the Company on 18 June 2001 that it had on 15 June 2001
subscribed for a total of 5,258 Barclays PLC ordinary shares at a price of
2219p per share.

The trustees of the trust also notified the Company on 18 June 2001 that it
had transferred 5,258 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC on 15 June 2001 to
participants in the Woolwich plc 1998 Executive Share Option Plan ('ESOP') who
had elected to exchange their options granted under the ESOP for options over
Barclays PLC ordinary shares following the acquisition of Woolwich plc by
Barclays PLC.  The shares were transferred on the exercise of these options
over Barclays PLC ordinary shares by the participants.

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

Following these transactions, 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.

2.       The trustee of the Barclays Qualifying Employee Share Ownership Trust
(the 'Quest') notified the Company on 18 June 2001 that it subscribed for a
total of 38,107 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 18 June 2001 at a price of
2173p per share.  Following this transaction, the trustee of the Quest held a
total of 38,107 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 which distributes shares to employees of the Barclays
Group on the exercise of options granted under the Barclays PLC 1991 SAYE
Share Option Scheme, the Barclays Group SAYE Share Option Scheme and the
Woolwich plc Sharesave Scheme (the 'Schemes')).

The trustee of the Quest also notified the Company on 18 June 2001 that it had
transferred 38,107 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 18 June 2001 to
participants in the Schemes following the exercise of their options.
Following this transaction, each of the directors listed above ceased to have
an interest in such shares.