Purchase of Own Securities

Barclays PLC
7 June 2002


Barclays PLC

Share Repurchase

Barclays PLC announces that on 7 June 2002 it purchased for cancellation
1,000,000 of its Ordinary Shares at a price of 575.0598 pence per share.

END.



                      This information is provided by RNS
            The company news service from the London Stock Exchange