Notification of Interest

Barclays PLC
5 October 2000

                                       
   NOTIFICATION OF INTEREST: COMPANIES ACT 1985 s.329
                            
The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (PSP &
ESOS) Employees' Benefit Trust (the 'trust') notified
Barclays PLC on 4 October 2000 that they had on 4 October
2000 released 3,484 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 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
7,803,791 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.