Notification of Interests

Barclays PLC
14 February 2001


                                                              14 February 2001


              NOTIFICATION OF INTEREST: COMPANIES ACT 1985 s.329


The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (PSP & ESOS) Employees' Benefit
Trust (the 'PSP/ESOS trust') notified Barclays PLC on 13 February 2001 that
they had on 12 February 2001 released 2,613 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 this transaction, the trustees of all the Barclays Group employees'
benefit trusts hold a total of 7,722,076 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.