Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
2 July 2001



                                                                   2 July 2001



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



1.  The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit
Trust, (the 'trust') notified the Company on 29 June 2001 that it had on 28
June 2001 exercised its discretion and released 2,840 ordinary shares in
Barclays PLC to a participant in the Executive Share Award Scheme ('ESAS').
The participant to whom shares were released is not a director of Barclays
PLC.



Following this transaction, the trustees of all the Barclays Group employees'
benefit trusts hold a total of 9,569,547 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 trustees of the Barclays Qualifying Employee Share Ownership Trust
(the 'Quest') notified the Company on 2 July 2001 that they subscribed for a
total of 291,269 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 2 July 2001 at a price of
2174p per share.  Following this transaction, the trustees of the Quest held a
total of 291,269 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 2 July 2001 that they
had transferred 291,269 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 2 July 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.