Notification of Interest

Barclays PLC
14 December 2000

                                      
             NOTIFICATION OF INTEREST: COMPANIES ACT 1985 s.329
                                      
The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit
Trust (the 'ESAS trust') notified the Company on 13 December 2000 that they
had on 12 December 2000 purchased a total of 27,742 ordinary shares at a
price of 1997p per share.   None of the shares purchased was in respect of
an award made to a director of Barclays PLC.

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

Following these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group
employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 7,903,762 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,
Sir Andrew Large, Mr C J Lendrum, Mr J M Stewart and Mr J S Varley.