Purchase of Own Securities

Barclays PLC
17 September 2002





                                  Barclays PLC



                                SHARE REPURCHASE



Barclays PLC announces that on 17th September 2002 it purchased for cancellation
500,000 of its Ordinary shares at a price of 439.66 pence per share.






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