Purchase of Own Securities

Barclays PLC
28 February 2003

Barclays PLC

Share Repurchase

Barclays PLC announces that on 28 February 2003 it purchased for cancellation
625,000 of its Ordinary Shares at a price of 343.692 pence per share.

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