Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
22 October 2001

                                                          22 October 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 19 October 2001 that it
had on 12 October 2001 exercised its discretion and released 4,000 ordinary
shares in Barclays PLC to participants in the Executive Share Award Scheme ('
ESAS'). The participants to whom shares were released are not directors of
Barclays PLC.

2.   The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees'
Benefit Trust (the 'Trust') notified the Company on 19 October 2001 that it
purchased 102,846 ordinary shares on 12 October at a price of 2039p per share
and 50,811 ordinary shares on 12 October at a price of 2030p per share.   None
of the shares purchased was in respect of an award made to a director of
Barclays PLC.

3.   The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS)
Supplementary Trust (the 'ESAS Supplementary trust') notified the Company on
19 October 2001 that it had on 12 October 2001 purchased a total of 6,070
ordinary shares in Barclays PLC at a price of 2039p per share and 598 ordinary
shares at a price of 2030p per share.  None of the shares purchased was in
respect of an award made to a director of Barclays PLC.

4.   The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (PSP & ESOS)
Trust (the 'PSP & ESOS' trust')  notified the Company on 19 October 2001 that
it had on 12 October 2001 purchased a total of 289 ordinary shares in Barclays
PLC at a price of 2039p per share.  None of the shares purchased was in
respect of an award made to a director of Barclays PLC.

5.   The trustee of the Barclays Qualifying Employee Share Ownership
Trust (the 'Quest') notified the Company on 22 October 2001 that it subscribed
for a total of 34,459 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 22 October 2001 at a
price of 2016p per share.  Following this transaction, the trustee of the
Quest held a total of 34,459 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 22 October 2001 that it
had transferred 34,459 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 22 October 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.

Following these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group
employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 10,552,716 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.