Director Shareholding

Barclays PLC
12 March 2001

                                                                 12 March 2001


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


The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit Trust
(the 'ESAS trust') notified the Company on 9 March 2001 that they had on 8
March 2001 released 874 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC to a participant in
the Barclays Executive Share Award Scheme.  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 12,949,085 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.