Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
26 August 2003

                                                                  26 August 2003

         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 26 August 2003 that it had on 20 August
2003 exercised its discretion and released 28,048 ordinary shares in Barclays
PLC to a participant in the Executive Share Award Scheme ('ESAS').  None of
these shares were released to a director of Barclays PLC.

Following this transaction, the trustees of all the Barclays Group employees'
benefit trusts hold a total of 80,936,345 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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