Purchase of Own Securities

Barclays PLC
01 August 2002



Barclays PLC

Share Repurchase

Barclays PLC announces that on 1 August 2002 it purchased for cancellation
2,350,000 of its Ordinary Shares at a price of 455.49 pence per share.

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