Director Shareholding

Barclays PLC
28 March 2001



                                                                 28 March 2001



        Notification of directors' interests: Companies Act 1985 s.329



The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit Trust,
(the 'trust') notified the company on 27 March 2001 that it had on 26 March
2001 exercised its discretion and released 134,337 ordinary shares in Barclays
PLC to participants in the Executive Share Award Scheme ('ESAS').  None of the
shares were released to a director of Barclays PLC.



The ESAS trust is a discretionary trust for the benefit of employees and
former employees (and their families) of Barclays Bank PLC and its
subsidiaries.



Following these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group
employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 11,939,701 ordinary shares in
Barclays PLC in which the following directors of Barclays PLC had an interest
as potential beneficiaries:  Sir Peter Middleton, Mr M W Barrett, Sir Andrew
Large, Mr C J Lendrum, Mr J M Stewart and Mr J S Varley.