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. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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