Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
9 October 2001



                                                                9 October 2001



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



                The trustee of the Barclays Qualifying Employee Share
Ownership Trust (the 'Quest') notified the Company on 8 October 2001 that it
subscribed for a total of 4,287 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 8 October 2001
at a price of 1912p per share.  Following this transaction, the trustee of the
Quest held a total of 4,287 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 8 October 2001 that it
had transferred 4,287 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 8 October 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.





Following these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group
employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 10,396,956 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.