Purchase of Own Securities

Barclays PLC
11 August 2004


Barclays PLC

Share Repurchase

Barclays PLC announces that on 11 August 2004 it purchased for cancellation
2,250,000 of its Ordinary Shares at a price of 509.8504 pence per share.


END.

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