Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
18 December 2001



                                                              18 December 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 17 December 2001 that it
had exercised its discretion and released the following ordinary shares in
Barclays PLC to participants in the Executive Share Award Scheme ('ESAS'):


Date of release              Number of ordinary shares in Barclays PLC


11 December 2001                                            2,624
12 December 2001                                           19,151
13 December 2001                                           15,561
14 December 2001                                            1,593


        The participants to whom shares were released are not directors of
Barclays PLC.

2.       The trustee of the Barclays Qualifying Employee Share Ownership Trust
(the 'Quest') notified the Company on 17 December 2001 that it subscribed for
a total of 99,247 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 17 December 2001 at a price
of 2132p per share.  Following this transaction, the trustee of the Quest held
a total of 99,247 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 17 December 2001 that it
had transferred 99,247 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 17 December 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 10,581,202 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.