Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
19 March 2002

                                                                   19 March 2002


            Notification of directors' interests: Companies Act s329

1.       The trustee of the Barclays Group (PSP & ESOS) Employees' Benefit Trust
notified the Company on 15 March 2002 that it had on 15 March 2002 exercised its
discretion and released 17,355 shares to John Stewart, a director of Barclays
PLC.  Of these shares 972 were gifted to Sylvia Stewart (his wife).  All of the
17,355 shares were sold on 15 March 2002 at a price of £22.34.

Following these transactions Mr Stewart has a beneficial interest in 1,006
ordinary shares in Barclays PLC.

As a participant in the Woolwich Sharesave Schemes Mr J M Stewart, together with
other directors and senior executives of Woolwich plc, have interests as
potential discretionary beneficiaries in 470,799 Barclays PLC ordinary shares
held by the trustee of the Woolwich Qualifying Employee Share Ownership Trust.

2.       The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit
Trust, (the 'trust') notified the Company on 18 March 2002 that it had between
11 March and 15 March 2002 exercised its discretion and released 10,393 ordinary
shares in Barclays PLC at prices ranging from 2183p to 2244p to participants in
the Executive Share Award Scheme ('ESAS'). The participants to whom shares were
released are not directors of Barclays PLC.


The trustee of the Barclays Qualifying Employee Share Ownership Trust
(the 'Quest') notified the Company on 15 March 2002 that it subscribed for a
total of 35,207 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 15 March 2002 at a price of
2243p per share.  Following this transaction, the trustee of the Quest held a
total of 35,207 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 15 March 2002 that it had
transferred 35,207 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 15 March 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.


Following these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group employees'
benefit trusts hold a total of 14,510,759 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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