Directors' Dealings

Barclays PLC
30 December 1999




                                                         
                                                         

NOTIFICATION OF INTEREST: COMPANIES ACT 1985 s.329
                            

The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS)
Employees' Benefit Trust (the 'Trust') notified the
Company on 30 December 1999 that, on 29 December 1999, it
released 116,484 Barclays PLC ordinary shares to
participants in the Group's Executive Share Award Scheme,
of which 50,447 ordinary shares were sold on 29 December
1999 by the trustees on behalf of participants.  None of
the shares were released to a director of Barclays PLC.
Under the rules of the Scheme there is no consideration
paid on any such release.

The Trust is a discretionary trust for the benefit of
employees and former employees (and, in each case, 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
9,055,824 shares in Barclays PLC in which the following
directors of Barclays PLC have an interest as potential
beneficiaries: Mr D P Allvey, Mr M W Barrett, Sir Andrew
Large, Mr C J Lendrum, Sir Peter Middleton and Mr J S
Varley.