Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
30 September 2003



                                                             30 September 2003





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



The trustee of the Barclays Qualifying Employee Share Ownership Trust (the '
Quest') notified the Company on 29 September 2003 that it subscribed for a total
of 18,691,316 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 29 September 2003 at a price of
471.75p per share.  (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')).



Following this transaction, the trustees of all the Barclays Group employees'
benefit trusts hold a total of 100,851,774 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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