Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
11 February 2002



                                                                11 February 2002


         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 8 February 2002 that it had on
5 February 2002 exercised its discretion and released 1,137 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.



2.             The trustee of the Barclays Qualifying Employee Share Ownership
Trust (the 'Quest') notified the Company on 11 February 2002 that it subscribed
for a total of 56,811 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 11 February 2002 at a
price of 2201p per share.  Following this transaction, the trustee of the Quest
held a total of 56,811 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 11 February 2002 that it
had transferred 56,811 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 11 February 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.


Following these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group employees'
benefit trusts hold a total of 10,478,940 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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