Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC 3 April 2002 3 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 2 April 2002 that it subscribed for a total of 14,183 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 2 April 2002 at a price of 2183p per share. Following this transaction, the trustee of the Quest held a total of 14,183 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 2 April 2002 that it had transferred 14,183 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 2 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 3 April 2002 that it had between 26 March and 28 March 2002 exercised its discretion and released 106,197 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC at prices ranging from 2129p to 2159p to participants in the Executive Share Award Scheme ('ESAS'). The participants to whom shares were released are not directors of Barclays PLC. 3. The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit Trust (the 'Trust') notified the Company on 3 April 2002 that it purchased 137,743 ordinary shares on 28 March 2002 at a price of 2159p per share. None of the shares purchased were in respect of an award made to a director of Barclays PLC. 4. The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Supplementary Trust (the 'ESAS Supplementary trust') notified the Company on 3 April 2002 that it had on 28 March 2002 purchased a total of 6,661 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC at a price of 2159p per share. None of the shares purchased were in respect of an award made to a director of Barclays PLC. 5. The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (PSP & ESOS) Trust (the ' PSP & ESOS trust') notified the Company on 3 April 2002 that it had on 28 March 2002 exercised its discretion and released 2,783 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC to participants who exercised their awards under the Barclays Group Performance Share Plan ('PSP'). The participant to whom shares were released is not a director of Barclays PLC. Following these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 14,534,857 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. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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