Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC 21 January 2002 21 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 18 January 2002 that it subscribed for a total of 79,507 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 18 January 2002 at a price of 2187p per share. Following this transaction, the trustee of the Quest held a total of 79,507 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 18 January 2002 that it had transferred 79,507 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 18 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. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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