Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
8 July 2002

                                                                     8 July 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 8 July 2002 that it subscribed for a total
of 9,826 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 8 July 2002 at a price of 511p per
share.  Following this transaction, the trustee of the Quest held a total of
9,826 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 8 July 2002 that it had
transferred 9,826 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 8 July 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 trustee of the Barclays Group Share Incentive Plan ('the SIP') informed
the Company on 8 July 2002 that on 8 July 2002 it had purchased, and now
held as bare trustee under the SIP, the following ordinary shares in the
capital of Barclays PLC for the following directors at a price of 509p per
share:


Director              Number of Shares
Mr C J Lendrum        25
Mr J S Varley         25


The revised total shareholding for each director following these transactions,
is as follows:

Director             Beneficial Holding           Non Beneficial Holding


Mr C J Lendrum       169,156                      -
Mr J S Varley        213,740                      -

In addition to the interests shown above, the trustees of all the Barclays Group
employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 58,390,514 ordinary shares in Barclays
PLC.  Mr C J Lendrum and Mr J S Varley, directors of Barclays PLC, together with
other directors and senior executives, 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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