Director Shareholding

Barclays PLC
11 April 2001


                                                                 11 April 2001


        Notification of directors' interests: Companies Act 1985 s.329


The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit Trust,
(the 'trust') notified the company on 10 April 2001 that it had on 9 April
2001 exercised its discretion and released 1,119 ordinary shares in Barclays
PLC to a participant in the Executive Share Award Scheme ('ESAS').  The
participant to whom shares were released is not a director of Barclays PLC.


The ESAS 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 11,748,777 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.