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

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