Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
2 July 2002

                                                                     2 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 1 July 2002 that it subscribed for a total
of 307,132 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 1 July 2002 at a price of 555.5p per
share.  Following this transaction, the trustee of the Quest held a total of
307,132 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 1 July 2002 that it had
transferred 307,132 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 1 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 independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit
Trust (the 'ESAS trust') notified the Company on 1 July 2002 that it had
exercised its discretion and released 831,582 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC 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 'ESAS trust') notified the Company on 1 July 2002 that it had on 28
June 2002 exercised its discretion and purchased 722,239 ordinary shares in
Barclays PLC at a price of 554p 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') also notified the Company on 1 July 2002
that it had on 28 June 2002 exercised its discretion and purchased 71,782
ordinary shares in Barclays PLC at a price of 554p per share.  None of the
shares purchased 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 58,390,514 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.





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