Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
25 February 2002



                                                                25 February 2002



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



1.       The trustee of the Barclays Qualifying Employee Share Ownership Trust
(the 'Quest') notified the Company on 22 February 2002 that it subscribed for a
total of 38,652 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 22 February 2002 at a price of
2058p per share.  Following this transaction, the trustee of the Quest held a
total of 38,652 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 February 2002 that it
had transferred 38,652 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 22 February 2002 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.


2.       The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (PSP & ESOS) Trust (the '
PSP & ESOS trust') notified the Company on 25 February 2002 that it had on 21
February 2002 exercised its discretion and released 4,347 ordinary shares in
Barclays PLC to participants who exercised their awards under the Barclays Group
Performance Share Plan ('PSP').  The participant to whom shares were released is
not a director of Barclays PLC.



3.       The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit
Trust, (the 'trust') notified the Company on 25 February 2002 that it had on 21
February 2002 exercised its discretion and released 2,130 ordinary shares in
Barclays PLC at a price of £20.94 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 these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group employees'
benefit trusts hold a total of 15,170,908 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.




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