Director's Interests

Barclays PLC
5 February 2001



                                                             5th February 2001


                        Barclays PLC and Woolwich plc

           Notification of director's interests: Companies Act s329

The trustees of the Woolwich Qualifying Employee Share Ownership Trustee
Limited (the 'Quest') notified the Company on 2 February 2001 that they had on
2 February 2001 released a total of 3,507 Barclays PLC ordinary shares to
participants who had exercised their options under the Woolwich plc Sharesave
Scheme and the Woolwich plc 2000 Sharesave Scheme.  The participants to whom
shares were released are not directors of Barclays PLC or Woolwich plc.

Following this transaction, the trustees of the Quest held a total of 470,799
Barclays PLC ordinary shares in which Mr J M Stewart, a director of Barclays
PLC, has an interest as a potential beneficiary.  (The Quest is a trust
established to distribute shares to employees of the Woolwich Group on the
exercise of options granted under the Woolwich plc Sharesave Scheme and the
Woolwich plc 2000 Sharesave Scheme).