Notification of Interest

Barclays PLC
4 October 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 3 October 2000 that they
had on 2 October 2000 purchased a total of 219,037 ordinary shares at a
price of 1899p per share.   None of the shares purchased was in respect of
an award made to a director of Barclays PLC.

The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Supplementary Trust
(the 'ESAS Supplementary trust') notified the Company on 3 October 2000 that
they had on 2 October 2000 purchased a total of 25,949 ordinary shares at a
price of 1855p per share.  None of the shares purchased was in respect of an
award made to a director of Barclays PLC.

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

The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (PSP & ESOS) Employees'
Benefit Trust (the 'PSP/ESOS trust') notified Barclays PLC on 3 October 2000
that they had on 3 October 2000 released 2,903 ordinary shares in Barclays
PLC to a participant who exercised their award under the Barclays Group
Performance Share Plan ('PSP').  The participant to whom shares were
released is not a director of Barclays PLC.

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

Following the transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group
employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 7,807,275 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.