Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
19 November 2001

                                                              19 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 16 November 2001 that it
had on 12 November 2001 exercised its discretion and released 33 ordinary
shares in Barclays PLC to participants in the Executive Share Award Scheme ('
ESAS'). The participants to whom shares were released are not directors of
Barclays PLC.

2.             The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees'
Benefit Trust (the 'Trust') notified the Company on 16 November 2001 that it
purchased 31,620 ordinary shares on 12 November at a price of 2110p per share.
None of the shares purchased was in respect of an award made to a director
of Barclays PLC.

Following these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group
employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 10,561,091 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.