Notification of Interest

Barclays PLC
22 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 21 December 2000 that they had on
21 December 2000 released 178,618 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC to
participants in the Executive Share Award Scheme.  None of the shares were
released 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.

The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (PSP & ESOS) Employees' Benefit
Trust (the 'PSP/ESOS trust') notified Barclays PLC on 21 December 2000 that
they had on 21 December 2000 released 3,136 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 these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group
employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 7,724,782 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.