Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
5 March 2002

                                                                  5 March 2002

         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 4 March 2002 that it had on 26, 27,
28 February and 1 March 2002 exercised its discretion and released 458,193
ordinary shares in Barclays PLC to participants in the Executive Share Award
Scheme ('ESAS').  The shares were released following provisional allocations
made by the trustee over Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 20 March 1995, 22 March
1996, 21 March 1997, 23 March 1998 and 26 February 1999 to participants in the
ESAS.  Of these shares, the following were released to directors of Barclays
PLC:


Director                              Shares     Shares sold on behalf of directors  Shares retained by
                                    released to  to meet tax liability at a price of      director
                                     director         £21.07 per ordinary share


Mr C J Lendrum                         1,732                     696                       1,036
Sir Peter Middleton                    3,072                    1,229                      1,843
Mr J S Varley                         14,591                    5,837                      8,754





The trust is a discretionary trust for the benefit of employees and former
employees (and their families) of Barclays Bank PLC and its subsidiaries.



The revised total share holding for each director who has retained shares
released under the ESAS, following these transactions, is as follows:




Director                        Beneficial Holding          Non Beneficial Holding


Mr C J Lendrum                  43,297                      -
Sir Peter Middleton             40,437                      1,500
Mr J S Varley                   53,407                      -




2.     The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Supplementary Trust
(the 'ESAS Supplementary trust') notified the Company on 4 March 2002 that it
had on 1 March 2002 released a total of 100 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC at a
price of 2107p per share.  None of the shares released were in respect of an
award made to a director of Barclays PLC.



Following these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group employees'
benefit trusts hold a total of 14,712,615 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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