Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
28 February 2002

                                                                28 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 28 February 2002 that it subscribed for a
total of 15,779 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 28 February 2002 at a price of
2074p per share.  Following this transaction, the trustee of the Quest held a
total of 15,779 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 28 February 2002 that it
had transferred 15,779 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 28 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 (ESAS) Employees' Benefit
Trust also notified the Company on 27 February 2002 that it had on 26 February
2002 granted rights in the form of nil cost options to the directors of Barclays
PLC listed below under the Barclays PLC Executive Share Award Scheme ('ESAS'),
to acquire ordinary shares in Barclays PLC.   The ESAS options are exercisable
from grant for a period of two years and have been granted over a proportion of
the shares which were originally provisionally allocated by the trustee under
ESAS on 26 February 1999 to the directors listed below.  The number of shares
under option includes an additional number of shares which have accrued in
respect of dividends received by the trustee since February 1999.  The total
exercise price payable on any exercise of an ESAS option is £1.


Director                                                   Shares Awarded

Mr C J Lendrum                                             4,650
Mr J S Varley                                              9,301


There has been no change in the number of ordinary shares in Barclays PLC held
by the trustee resulting from the grant of these awards.


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