Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
11 December 2001



                                                              11 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 10 December 2001 that it
had on 3 December 2001 exercised its discretion and released 3,093 ordinary
shares in Barclays PLC to participants in the Executive Share Award Scheme ('
ESAS').  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 10 December 2001 that it subscribed for
a total of 47,082 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 10 December 2001 at a price
of 2122p per share.  Following this transaction, the trustee of the Quest held
a total of 47,082 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 10 December 2001 that it
had transferred 47,082 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 10 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 10,620,131 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.