Director Shareholding

Barclays PLC
18 April 2001


                                                               18 April 2001


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

The trustees of the Group's Profit Sharing Scheme notified the Company on 17
April 2001 that a total of 2,194,121 Barclays PLC ordinary shares were
appropriated to Directors and employees of the Barclays Group on 17 April
2001.

The Directors of Barclays PLC, listed below, were each appropriated 356
Barclays PLC ordinary shares at 2241p.  Following these appropriations, the
directors' total interests in shares in Barclays PLC are as follows:


Director                      Beneficial interest       Non-beneficial interest


Mr M Barrett                               25,356                             -
Mr C J Lendrum                             38,481                             -
Sir Peter Middleton                        37,994                         1,500
Mr J M Stewart                                998                             -
Mr J S Varley                              38,568                             -



The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit Trust,
(the 'trust') notified the Company on 17 April 2001 that it had on 12 April
2001 exercised its discretion and released 9,245 ordinary shares in Barclays
PLC to participants in the Executive Share Award Scheme ('ESAS').  None of the
shares were released to 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 these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group
employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 9,537,193 ordinary shares in
Barclays PLC.   Sir Peter Middleton, Mr M W Barrett, Sir Andrew Large, Mr C J
Lendrum, Mr J M Stewart and Mr J S Varley, Directors of Barclays PLC, are
amongst the potential beneficiaries under the trusts.