Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
10 April 2002

                                                                   10 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 9 April 2002 that it subscribed for a
total of 10,614 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 9 April 2002 at a price of 2162p
per share.  Following this transaction, the trustee of the Quest held a total of
10,614 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 9 April 2002 that it had
transferred 10,614 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 9 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 trustee of the Barclays Group Share Incentive Plan ('the SIP') informed
the Company on 8 April 2002 that on 8 April 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 2160p per
share:


    Director              Number of Shares
    Mr C J Lendrum        6
    Mr J S Varley         6



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


    Director             Beneficial Holding           Non Beneficial Holding


    Mr C J Lendrum       42,272                       -
    Mr J S Varley        53,418                       -


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