Director Shareholding

Barclays PLC
07 June 2005





                                                                     7 June 2005

         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 6 June 2005 that it had on 
    31 May 2005 exercised its discretion and released a total of 5,402 ordinary 
    shares in Barclays PLC. None of the shares released were in respect of an 
    award made to a director of Barclays PLC.

2.  The trustee of the Barclays Group Sharepurchase Plan, an Inland Revenue
    approved all-employee share plan, informed the Company on 7 June 2005 that 
    it had on 7 June 2005 purchased, and now held as bare trustee of the 
    Barclays Group Sharepurchase Plan, the following ordinary shares in the 
    capital of Barclays PLC for the following directors at a price of 522.75p 
    per share:

    Director           Number of Shares
    Mr J S Varley      46
    Mr D L Roberts     46
    Mr G A Hoffman     46

    The Barclays Group Sharepurchase Plan now includes Matching Shares provided 
    by the Company on a 1:1 basis up to the first £600 per annum invested by the
    participant under the Plan. The number of shares purchased on 7 June 2005 
    for each director above includes 23 Matching Shares.

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

Director           Beneficial Holding         Non Beneficial
                                              Holding
Mr J S Varley      351,141                    -
Mr D L Roberts     70,766                     -
Mr G A Hoffman     178,626                    -

In addition to the interests shown above, the trustees of all the Barclays Group
employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 137,974,116 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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