Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
15 May 2001

                                                                   15 May 2001


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

1.            The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (PSP & ESOS) Trust
(the 'trust') notified the Company on 14 May 2001 that it had on 14 May 2001
subscribed for a total of 12,819 Barclays PLC ordinary shares at a price of
2293p per share.

The trustees of the trust also notified the Company on 14 May 2001 that it had
transferred 12,819 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC on 14 May 2001 to
participants in the Woolwich plc 1998 Executive Share Option Plan ('ESOP') who
had elected to exchange their options granted under the ESOP for options over
Barclays PLC ordinary shares following the acquisition of Woolwich plc by
Barclays PLC.  The shares were transferred on the exercise of these options
over Barclays PLC ordinary shares by the participants.

                The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS)
Employees' Benefit Trust, (the 'trust') notified the company on 15 May 2001
that it had on 14 May 2001 exercised its discretion and released 1,224
ordinary shares in Barclays PLC to a participant in the Executive Share Award
Scheme ('ESAS').

The ESAS trust is a discretionary trust for the benefit of employees and
former employees (and their families) of Barclays Bank PLC and its
subsidiaries.

None of these shares were transferred or released to a director of Barclays
PLC.

Following these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group
employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 9,518,698 ordinary shares in
Barclays PLC.   Sir Peter Middleton, Mr M W Barrett, Sir Andrew Large, Mr C J
Lendrum, Mr J M Stewart and Mr J S Varley, 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.

2.            The trustees of the Barclays Qualifying Employee Share Ownership
Trust (the 'Quest') notified the Company on 14 May 2001 that they subscribed
for a total of 108,786 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 14 May 2001 at a price
of 2227p per share.  Following this transaction, the trustees of the Quest
held a total of 108,786 Barclays PLC ordinary shares in which the following
directors of Barclays PLC had an interest as potential beneficiaries: Sir
Peter Middleton, Mr M W Barrett, Mr C J Lendrum, Mr J M Stewart and Mr J S
Varley.  (The Quest is a trust which distributes shares to employees of the
Barclays Group on the exercise of options granted under the Barclays PLC 1991
SAYE Share Option Scheme, the Barclays Group SAYE Share Option Scheme and the
Woolwich PLC Sharesave Scheme (the 'Schemes').)

The trustees of the Quest also notified the Company on 14 May 2001 that they
had transferred 108,786 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 14 May 2001 to
participants in the Schemes following the exercise of their options.
Following this transaction, each of the directors listed above ceased to have
an interest in such shares.