Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
15 January 2002



                                                               15 January 2002


        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 14 January 2002 that it subscribed for a total
of 115,762 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 14 January 2002 at a price of 2260p
per share.  Following this transaction, the trustee of the Quest held a total
of 115,762 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 14 January 2002 that it
had transferred 115,762 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 14 January 2002 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.