Directors' Interest

Barclays PLC
2 October 2001

                                                          2 October 2001



           Notification of directors' interests: Companies Act s329


The Company was notified on 1 October 2001 by the Administrators of the
Dividend Reinvestment Plan (the 'Plan') that on 1 October 2001 the following
directors had received ordinary shares in the Company by way of the Plan for
the 2001 interim dividend at a price of 1877p per share.  The number of shares
received by each director, together with their beneficial interests following
the allotments, are as follows:


Director            No. of shares received            Beneficial interests


M W Barrett                   313                            26,089

P J Jarvis                    23                             4,345

S G Russell                    5                             1,264



The Company was notified on 1 October 2001 by the Plan Manager of the WPM
Barclays Share Single Company PEP (the 'PEP') that on 1 October 2001, Mr J M
Stewart and his wife, Mrs S A Stewart, had received a total of 3 ordinary
shares in the Company as a result of the 2001 interim dividend on the shares
held in their PEPs being reinvested at a price of 1847p per share.  Following
these transactions, Mr J M Stewart, a director of the Company, has a total
beneficial interest in 1,006 ordinary shares in the Company.



Mr M W Barrett and Mr J M Stewart, together with other directors and senior
executives of Barclays PLC and Barclays Bank PLC, have interests as potential
beneficiaries in 10,435,860 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC held by the
trustees of all the Barclays Group employees' benefit trusts.



As a participant in the Woolwich Sharesave Schemes Mr J M Stewart, together
with other directors and senior executives of Woolwich plc, have interests as
potential discretionary beneficiaries in 470,799 Barclays PLC ordinary shares
held by the trustee of the Woolwich Qualifying Employee Share Ownership Trust.