Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC 5 November 2001 5 November 2001 Notification of directors' interests : Companies Act 1985 s.329 1. The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit Trust, (the 'trust') notified the Company on 2 November 2001 that it had on 29 October 2001 exercised its discretion and released 602 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC and on 31 October 2001 exercised its discretion and released 1,223 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC. All the shares were released to participants in the Executive Share Award Scheme ('ESAS'). The participants to whom shares were released are not directors of Barclays PLC. 2. The trustee of the Barclays Qualifying Employee Share Ownership Trust (the 'Quest') notified the Company on 5 November 2001 that it subscribed for a total of 176,894 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 5 November 2001 at a price of 2116p per share. Following this transaction, the trustee of the Quest held a total of 176,894 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 5 November 2001 that it had transferred 176,894 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 5 November 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 10,531,331 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.

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