Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
20 August 2001

                                                                20 August 2001



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



1.             The trustee of the Barclays Qualifying Employee Share Ownership
Trust (the 'Quest') notified the Company on 17 August 2001 that it subscribed
for a total of 25,178 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 17 August 2001 at a
price of 2273p per share.  Following this transaction, the trustee of the
Quest held a total of 25,178 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 trustee of the Quest also notified the Company on 17 August 2001 that it
had transferred 25,178 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 17 August 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.



2.           The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (PSP & ESOS) Trust
(the 'PSP & ESOS trust') notified the Company on 17 August 2001 that it had on
14 August 2001 exercised its discretion and released 28,840 ordinary shares in
Barclays PLC to participants who exercised their awards under the Barclays
Group Performance Share Plan ('PSP').  The participants to whom shares were
released are not  directors of Barclays PLC. In addition the trustee of the
ESOS & PSP trust also notified the Company on 17 August 2001 that on the 16
August 2001 it had transferred by way of gift 3,171 ordinary shares in
Barclays PLC to the trustees of the Barclays PLC 1991 UK Profit Sharing
Schemes.



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



3.             The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees'
Benefit Trust, (the 'trust') notified the Company on 17 August 2001 that it
had on 16 August 2001 exercised its discretion and released 1,766 ordinary
shares in Barclays PLC to a participant in the Executive Share Award Scheme ('
ESAS').  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 10,417,645 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.