Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
6 August 2001

                                                                 6 August 2001


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


1)  The trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit Trust (the 
'ESAS trust') notified the Company on 6 August 2001 that it had on 3 August
2001 purchased a total of 941,365 Barclays PLC ordinary shares at a price of
2146p per share and exercised its discretion and released 712 Barclays PLC
ordinary shares to a participant in the Executive Share Award Scheme ('ESAS').
The participant to whom shares were released is not a director of Barclays
PLC.


2)  The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Supplementary Trust
(the 'ESAS Supplementary trust') notified the Company on 6 August 2001 that it
had on 2 August 2001 purchased a total of 27,200 Barclays PLC ordinary shares
at a price of 2142p per share.  None of the shares purchased was in respect of
an award made to a director of Barclays PLC.


3)  The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (PSP & ESOS) Trust (the 'PSP
& ESOS trust') notified the Company on 6 August 2001 that it had on 3 August
2001 exercised its discretion and released 2,613 ordinary shares in Barclays
PLC to a participant who exercised their award under the Barclays Group
Performance Share Plan ('PSP').  The participant to whom shares were released
is not a director of Barclays PLC.


Following these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group
employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 10,534,787 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.


4)    The following directors of Barclays PLC notified the Company on 3 August
that they had purchased on 3 August the following ordinary shares in Barclays
PLC at a price of 2199p per share:


DIRECTOR       BARCLAYS PLC   TOTAL BENEFICIAL INTEREST  TOTAL
               SHARES         FOLLOWING THIS             NON-BENEFICIAL INTEREST
               PURCHASED      NOTIFICATION               FOLLOWING THIS
                                                         NOTIFICATION
                                                     
T D G Arculus     103             2,441                      -

H M Cropper       109             1,993                      -
                   
P J Jarvis        263             4,322                      -

Sir Brian Jenkins 85              635                        26,300

Sir Nigel Mobbs   109             11,123                     5,000

Sir Nigel Rudd    124             1,732                      -

S G Russell       100             1,259                      -

G M Wallace       31              531                        -