Purchase of Own Securities

Barclays PLC
05 March 2003

Barclays PLC

Share Repurchase

Barclays PLC announces that on 5 March 2003 it purchased for cancellation
1,000,000 of its Ordinary Shares at a price of 344.9329 pence per share.

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