Purchase of Own Securities

Barclays PLC
23 September 2002


                                                           
                                   Barclays PLC

                                 SHARE REPURCHASE


Barclays PLC announces that on 23rd September 2002 it purchased for cancellation
3,000,000 of its Ordinary shares at a price of 372.33 pence per share.


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