Director Shareholding

Barclays PLC
10 May 2004







                                                                     10 May 2004

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

1.       The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit
Trust (the 'ESAS Trust') notified the Company on 10 May 2004 that it had between
4 May 2004 and 7 May 2004 exercised its discretion and released 73,467 ordinary
shares in Barclays PLC to participants in the Executive Share Award Scheme
('ESAS'). The participants to whom the shares were released are not directors of
Barclays PLC.

2.       The trustee of the Barclays Group Share Incentive Plan ('the SIP')
informed the Company on 7 May 2004 it had purchased, and now held as bare
trustee under the SIP, the following ordinary shares in the capital of Barclays
PLC for the following directors at a price of 502p per share:

Director            Number of Shares
Mr G A Hoffman      25
Mr C J Lendrum      25
Mr D L Roberts      25
Mr J S Varley       25

The revised total shareholding for each director following these transactions,
is as follows:

Director        Beneficial Holding  Non Beneficial
                                    Holding
Mr G A Hoffman  133,005             -
Mr C J Lendrum  231,443             -
Mr D L Roberts  62,195              -
Mr J S Varley   329,600             -

Following these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group employees'
benefit trusts hold a total of 107,095,589 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC. Sir
Peter Middleton, Chairman, and the executive directors of Barclays PLC are
amongst the potential beneficiaries under these trusts and are therefore
regarded for Companies Act purposes as being interested in the Barclays PLC
ordinary shares held in them.




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