Purchase of Own Securities

Barclays PLC
9 April 2002
                                   Barclays PLC

                                 SHARE REPURCHASE

  Barclays PLC announces that on 8th April 2002 it purchased for cancellation
  415,000 of its Ordinary  shares at a price of  2126.34 pence per share.


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