Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
03 October 2002

                                                                  3 October 2002


            Notification of directors' interests: Companies Act s329


The Company was notified on 2 October 2002 by the Administrators of the Dividend
Reinvestment Plan (the 'Plan') that on 1 October 2002 the following directors
had received ordinary shares in the Company by way of the Plan for the 2002
interim dividend at a price of 389.46p per share.  The number of shares received
by each director, together with their total beneficial interests following the
allotments, are as follows:


Director                                 No. of shares received                    Beneficial interests


M W Barrett                                       2,361                                   148,545

S G Russell                                        36                                      7,125



The Company was notified on 2 October 2002 by the Plan Manager of the WPM
Barclays Share Single Company PEP (the 'PEP') that on 1 October 2002, Mr J M
Stewart and his wife, Mrs S A Stewart, had received a total of 18 ordinary
shares in the Company as a result of the 2002 interim dividend on the shares
held in their PEPs being reinvested at a price of 391.5p per share.  Following
these transactions, Mr J M Stewart, a director of the Company, has a total
beneficial interest in 4,047 ordinary shares in the Company.



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 1,883,196 Barclays PLC ordinary shares
held by the trustee of the Woolwich Qualifying Employee Share Ownership Trust.



In addition to the interests shown above, the trustees of all the Barclays Group
employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 67,353,167 ordinary shares in Barclays
PLC. Sir Peter Middleton, Mr M W Barrett, Mr C J Lendrum, Mr J M Stewart and Mr
J S Varley, directors of Barclays PLC, are amongst the potential beneficiaries
under these trusts and are therefore regarded for Companies Act purposes as
being interested in the Barclays PLC ordinary shares held in them.



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