Director's Notification of Dealing in Shares

Barclays PLC
30 August 2000


            NOTIFICATION OF INTEREST: COMPANIES ACT 1985 s.329

The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit Trust,
(the 'trust') notified the Company on 29 August 2000 that they had on 25
August 2000 released 762 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC to a participant in
the Executive Share Award Scheme.  The participant to whom shares were
released is not a director of Barclays PLC.

The trust is a discretionary trust for the benefit of employees and former
employees (and their families) of Barclays Bank PLC and its subsidiaries.

Following this transaction, the trustees of all the Barclays Group employees'
benefit trusts hold a total of 7,577,274 shares in Barclays PLC in which the
following directors of Barclays PLC have an interest as potential
beneficiaries: Sir Peter Middleton, Mr M W Barrett, Mr D P Allvey, Sir Andrew
Large, Mr C J Lendrum and Mr J S Varley.