Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
5 September 2001


                                                              5 September 2001



        Notification of directors' interests Companies Act 1985 s.329


1).           The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (PSP & ESOS) Trust
(the 'PSP & ESOS trust') notified the Company on 4 September 2001 that it had
on 31 August 2001 exercised its discretion and released 6,434 ordinary shares
in Barclays PLC to participants who exercised their awards under the Barclays
Group Performance Share Plan ('PSP').  The participant to whom shares were
released is not a director of Barclays PLC.


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.



2).           The trustee of the Barclays Qualifying Employee Share Ownership
Trust (the 'Quest') notified the Company on 4 September 2001 that it
subscribed for a total of 2,648 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 4 September
2001 at a price of 2117p per share.  Following this transaction, the trustee
of the Quest held a total of 2,648 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 4 September 2001 that it
had transferred 2,648 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 4 September 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 10,406,671 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.