Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
21 January 2002




                                                                 21 January 2002



         Notification of directors' interests: Companies Act 1985 s.329


The trustee of the Barclays Qualifying Employee Share Ownership Trust (the 
'Quest') notified the Company on 18 January 2002 that it subscribed for a total
of 79,507 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 18 January 2002 at a price of 2187p
per share.  Following this transaction, the trustee of the Quest held a total of
79,507 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 18 January 2002 that it
had transferred 79,507 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 18 January 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.



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