Director Shareholding

Barclays PLC
11 March 2005


                                                                   11 March 2005

         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 10 March 2005 that it had on 7 March 
2005 exercised its discretion and released a total of 13,714,370 ordinary shares
in Barclays PLC to participants in the Executive Share Award Scheme ('ESAS'). 
The shares were released following provisional allocations made by the trustee 
over Barclays PLC ordinary shares to participants in the ESAS. Of these shares, 
the following were released to directors of Barclays PLC:

Director        Shares released   Shares sold on        Price       Shares
                to directors      behalf of directors   per share   retained 
                                  to meet tax and      (pence)      by directors
                                  national insurance
                                  liability

Mr JS Varley    35,930            14,754                565.29      21,176
Mr RWJ Davis    164,264           67,450                565.29      96,814
Mr GA Hoffman   17,966            7,378                 565.29      10,588
Mr DL Roberts   12,321            5,060                 565.29      7,261

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

Director             Beneficial Holding

Mr JS Varley         351,026
Mr RWJ Davis         99,970
Mr GA Hoffman        178,511
Mr DL Roberts        70,651

Following these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group employees'
benefit trusts hold a total of 137,725,905 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC.
Matthew W. Barrett, Chairman, and the executive directors of Barclays 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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