Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
04 November 2003

                                                                 4 November 2003


            Notification of directors' interests: Companies Act s329

The trustees of the Barclays Qualifying Employee Share Ownership Trust (the '
QUEST') notified the Company on 3 November 2003 that they had transferred
18,533,476 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 3 November 2003 to participants in
the Barclays PLC 1991 SAYE Share Option Scheme and the Barclays Group SAYE Share
Option Scheme following the exercise of their options.  (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 and the
Barclays Group SAYE Share Option Scheme (the 'Schemes').

The following directors exercised their options under the above schemes as
detailed below:

Director             Number of Shares             Exercise price per share

Mr M W Barrett       3,064                        316p
Mr C J Lendrum       3,912                        199p

The revised total shareholding for each director following these transactions,
is as follows:

Director             Beneficial Holding           Non Beneficial Holding

Mr M W Barrett       277,656                      -
Mr C J Lendrum       224,389                      -

In addition to the interests shown above, the trustees of all the Barclays Group
employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 82,646,514 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.


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