Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
10 December 2002

                                                                10 December 2002

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


1.       The trustees of the Barclays Qualifying Employee Share Ownership Trust
(the 'Quest') notified the Company on 10 December 2002 that they subscribed for
a total of 208,823 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 10 December 2002 at a price
of 405p per share.  Following this transaction, the trustees of the Quest held a
total of 208,823 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 trustees of the Quest also notified the Company on 10 December 2002 that
they had transferred 208,823 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 10 December 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 9 December 2002 that on 9 December 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
402p per share:


Director            Number of Shares

Mr C J Lendrum      32
Mr J S Varley       32

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

Director             Beneficial Holding           Non Beneficial Holding

Mr C J Lendrum       202,860                      -
Mr J S Varley        247,448                      -


3.       The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Supplementary
Trust (the 'ESAS Supplementary trust') notified the Company on 10 December 2002
that it had on 4 December 2002 purchased a total of 13,700 ordinary shares in
Barclays PLC at a price of 414.75p 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) Employees' Benefit
Trust (the 'Trust') notified the Company on 10 December 2002 that it purchased a
total of 209,593 ordinary shares on 4 December 2002 at a price of 414.75p per
share.   None of the shares purchased were in respect of an award made to a
director of Barclays PLC.

In addition to the interests shown above, the trustees of all the Barclays Group
employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 71,371,095 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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