Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
21 November 2001

                                                              21 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 20 November 2001 that it subscribed for a
total of 127,533 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 20 November 2001 at a price
of 2233p per share.  Following this transaction, the trustee of the Quest held
a total of 127,533 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 20 November 2001 that it
had transferred 127,533 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 20 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.