Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
8 March 2002

                                                                    8 March 2002

         Notification of directors' interests: Companies Act 1985 s.329

This is the first notification of a change in directors' share interests to be
made in respect of the Barclays Group Share Incentive Plan (the 'SIP').

The SIP is an Inland Revenue approved all-employee share scheme under which
participants make monthly contributions out of pre-tax pay of between £10 and
£125 which the trustee uses to buy shares in Barclays PLC on their behalf.  The
shares are known as Partnership Shares and are held by the Trustee for
participants in the SIP as bare trustee.

The trustee of the SIP informed the Company on 8 March 2002 that on 7 March 2002
it had purchased, and now held as bare trustee under the SIP, the following
ordinary shares in the capital of Barclays PLC for the following Directors at a
price of 2218p per share:

Director                        Number of Shares

Mr C J Lendrum                  5
Mr J S Varley                   5

The revised total shareholding for each director following these transactions,
is as follows:

Director                        Beneficial Holding        Non Beneficial Holding


Mr C J Lendrum                  43,302                      -
Mr J S Varley                   53,412                      -


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