Directors' Notification of Dealing in Shares

Barclays PLC
24 March 2000
                                                              

              NOTIFICATION OF INTEREST: COMPANIES ACT 1985 s.329

The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit Trust,
(the 'trust') notified the company on 23 March 2000 that they had:

a) on 17 March 2000 released 3,691 ordinary shares to participants in the
Executive Share Award Scheme, of which 1,477 ordinary shares were sold to meet
their tax liabilities. None of the shares were released to a director of
Barclays PLC.

b) on 23 March 2000 released 626,583 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC to
participants in the Executive Share Award Scheme, of which 190,752 ordinary
shares were sold on 23 March 2000 by the trustee on behalf of participants to
meet their tax liabilities.  Of these, the following were released to
directors of Barclays PLC:

Director             Shares       Shares sold on behalf of     Shares 
                     released     directors to meet tax        retained by
                     to director  liability at a price of      director
                                  £15.65 per ordinary share                   


Mr C J Lendrum       3,856        1,544                        2,312
Sir Peter Middleton  8,192        3,278                        4,914
Mr J S Varley        7,249        2,900                        4,349

The trust is a discretionary trust for the benefit of employees and former
employees (and their families) of Barclays Bank PLC and its subsidiaries.

The revised total share interest for each director who has retained shares
released under the Executive Share Award Scheme, following these transactions,
is as follows:

Director               Beneficial Holding      Non Beneficial Holding

Mr C J Lendrum         38,217                  -
Sir Peter Middleton    39,909                  17,000
Mr J S Varley          24,813                  -


Following these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group
employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 10,649,883 shares in Barclays PLC in
which the following directors of Barclays PLC have an interest as potential
beneficiaries: Sir Peter Middleton, Mr M W Barrett, Mr D P Allvey, Sir Andrew
Large, Mr C J Lendrum and Mr J S Varley.