Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC 15 April 2002 15 April 2002 Notification of directors' interests: Companies Act 1985 s.329 1. The trustee of the Barclays Qualifying Employee Share Ownership Trust (the 'Quest') notified the Company on 15 April 2002 that it subscribed for a total of 41,561 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 15 April 2002 at a price of 2259p per share. Following this transaction, the trustee of the Quest held a total of 41,561 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 15 April 2002 that it had transferred 41,561 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 15 April 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. 2. The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit Trust, (the 'trust') notified the Company on 15 April 2002 that it had on 10 April 2002 exercised its discretion and released 3,958 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC at a price of 2233p and on 12 April 2002 released 12,919 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC at a price of 2252p to participants in the Executive Share Award Scheme ('ESAS'). The participants to whom shares were released are not directors of Barclays PLC. Following these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 14,425,731 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. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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