Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC 22 June 2001 22 June 2001 Notification of directors' interests: Companies Act 1985 s.329 The trustees of the Barclays Qualifying Employee Share Ownership Trust (the ' Quest') notified the Company on 22 June 2001 that they subscribed for a total of 19,154 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 22 June 2001 at a price of 2211p per share. Following this transaction, the trustees of the Quest held a total of 19,154 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 trustees of the Quest also notified the Company on 22 June 2001 that they had transferred 19,154 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 22 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.

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