Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
29 January 2002

                                                                 29 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 28 January 2002 that it subscribed for a total
of 40,158 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 28 January 2002 at a price of 2277p
per share.  Following this transaction, the trustee of the Quest held a total of
40,158 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 28 January 2002 that it
had transferred 40,158 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 28 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.




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