Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
01 April 2003

                                                                    1 April 2003


         Notification of directors' interests: Companies Act 1985 s.329
     
1.   The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit
     Trust, (the 'trust') notified the company on 31 March 2003 that it had 
     between 24 and 27 March 2003 exercised its discretion and released 
     1,525,104 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC to participants in the Executive 
     Share Award Scheme ('ESAS').  The shares were released following 
     provisional allocations made by the trustee over Barclays PLC ordinary 
     shares on 23 March 1998 to participants in the ESAS.  Of these shares, the 
     following were released to directors of Barclays PLC:


Director              Shares          Shares sold on behalf of directors       Shares retained by
                   released to        to meet tax liability at a price of           director
                     director               380.27p per ordinary share


Mr C J Lendrum        9,608                           3,844                          5,764
Mr J S Varley         93,201                          37,281                         55,920


The revised total share holding for each director who has retained shares
released under the ESAS, following these transactions, is as follows:


Director                    Beneficial Holding          Non Beneficial Holding


Mr C J Lendrum              220,137                     -
Mr J S Varley               303,473                     -
     
2.   The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Supplementary Trust
     (the 'ESAS Supplementary trust') notified the Company on 31 March 2003 
     that it had on 26 March 2003 released a total of 14,754 ordinary shares in      
     Barclays PLC at a price of 383.52p per share.  None of the shares released 
     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 84,070,195 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC.  Sir
Peter Middleton, Mr M W Barrett, Mr C J Lendrum 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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