Director Shareholding

Barclays PLC
16 February 2001






                                                              16 February 2001



           Notification of directors' interests: Companies Act s329



The trustees of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit Trust and the
trustees of the Barclays PLC 1991 UK Profit Sharing Schemes (together the
'Trusts') notified the Company on 15 and 16 February 2001 that they purchased
4,650,000 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC on 15 February 2001 at a price of
2237p per share and 580,518 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC on 16 February
2001 at a price of 2275p per share. The total number of shares purchased was
at an average price of 2241p per share.

The Trusts are discretionary trusts for the benefit of employees, former
employees and (except for the Barclays PLC 1991 UK Profit Sharing Schemes
trust) their families, of Barclays Bank PLC and its subsidiaries. Following
these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group employees' benefit
trusts hold a total of 12,952,594 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC in which the
following directors of Barclays PLC had an interest as potential
beneficiaries: Sir Peter Middleton, Mr M W Barrett, Sir Andrew Large, Mr C J
Lendrum, Mr J M Stewart and Mr J S Varley.