Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
13 January 2003


                                                                 13 January 2003


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


The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit Trust,
(the 'trust') notified the Company on 13 January 2003 that it had on 8 January
2003 exercised its discretion and released 4,811 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC
to a participant in the Executive Share Award Scheme ('ESAS').  The participant
to whom shares were released is not a director of Barclays PLC.

Following these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group employees'
benefit trusts hold a total of 70,651,234 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC. Sir
Peter Middleton, Mr M W Barrett, 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 held in them.


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