Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
22 April 2002


                                                                   22 April 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 April 2002 that it subscribed for a
total of 30,965 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 22 April 2002 at a price of
2294p per share.  Following this transaction, the trustee of the Quest held a
total of 30,965 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 April 2002 that it had
transferred 30,965 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 22 April 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, (the 'trust') notified the Company on 22 April 2002 that it had on 18
April 2002 exercised its discretion and released 3,040 ordinary shares in
Barclays PLC at a price of 2303p to participants in the Executive Share Award
Scheme ('ESAS'). The participants to whom shares were released are not directors
of Barclays PLC.

Following these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group employees'
benefit trusts hold a total of 14,422,691 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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