Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
06 October 2003

                                                                  6 October 2003


         Notification of directors' interests: Companies Act 1985 s.329
     
1.   The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit
     Trust, (the 'ESAS trust') notified the Company on 6 October 2003 that it 
     had between 29 September and 3 October 2003 exercised its discretion and 
     released 702,732 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC to participants in the 
     Executive Share Award Scheme ('ESAS').  None of these shares were released 
     to a director of Barclays PLC.
     
2.   The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Supplementary Trust 
     (the 'ESAS Supplementary trust') notified the Company on 6 October 2003
     that it had between 30 September and 3 October 2003 released a total of 
     28,119 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC at prices ranging from 460.35p to 
     497.75p per share.  None of the shares released were in respect of an award 
     made to a director of Barclays PLC.

     Following these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group 
     employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 100,120,923 ordinary shares in 
     Barclays PLC. Sir Peter Middleton, Mr M W Barrett, Mr C J Lendrum 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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