Directors' Dealings

Barclays PLC
3 March 2000


         Notification of directors' interests: Companies Act s329

The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (PSP and ESOS) Employees'
Benefit Trust (the 'trust') notified the Company on 2 March 2000 that it
released 5,940 Barclays PLC ordinary shares to participants who exercised
their awards under the Barclays Group Performance Share Plan ('PSP') on 1
March 2000.  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, in each case, 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 11,280,157 shares in Barclays
PLC in which the following directors of Barclays PLC have an interest as
potential beneficiaries: Sir Peter Middleton, Mr M W Barrett, Mr D P Allvey,
Sir Andrew Large, Mr C J Lendrum and Mr J S Varley.