Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
2 November 2001





                                                               2 November 2001



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


                The trustee of the Barclays Qualifying Employee Share
Ownership Trust (the 'Quest') notified the Company on 1 November 2001 that it
subscribed for a total of 6,281,378 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 1 November
2001 at a price of 2053p per share.  Following this transaction, the trustee
of the Quest held a total of 6,281,378 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 1 November 2001 that it
had transferred 6,281,378 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 1 November 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.