Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
29 March 2001


                                                                 29 March 2001



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

The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit Trust,
(the 'trust') notified the company:

on 28 March 2001 that it had on 27 March 2001 exercised its discretion and
released 60,193 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC to participants in the
Executive Share Award Scheme ('ESAS'); and

on 29 March 2001 that it had on 28 March 2001 exercised its discretion and
released 98,139 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC to participants in the
Executive Share Award Scheme ('ESAS').

None of the shares were released to a director of Barclays PLC.  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.

Following these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group
employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 11,781,369 ordinary shares in
Barclays PLC in which the following directors of Barclays PLC had an interest
as potential beneficiaries:  Sir Peter Middleton, Mr M W Barrett, Sir Andrew
Large, Mr C J Lendrum, Mr J M Stewart and Mr J S Varley.