Purchase of Own Securities

Barclays PLC
1 April 2003


                                  Barclays PLC

                                SHARE REPURCHASE


  Barclays PLC announces that on 1st April 2003 it purchased for cancellation
      550,000 of its Ordinary shares at a price of 362.04 pence per share.


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