Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
29 April 2002



                                                                   29 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 26 April 2002 that it subscribed for a
total of 27,380 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 26 April 2002 at a price of
2428p per share.  Following this transaction, the trustee of the Quest held a
total of 27,380 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 26 April 2002 that it had
transferred 27,380 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 26 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 29 April 2002 that it had on 22
April 2002 exercised its discretion and released 9,704 ordinary shares in
Barclays PLC at a price of 2280p and that it had on 24 April 2002 exercised its
discretion and released 14,654 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC at a price of
2405p to participants in the Executive Share Award Scheme ('ESAS'). The
participants to whom shares were released are not directors of Barclays PLC.


Following this transaction, the trustees of all the Barclays Group employees'
benefit trusts hold a total of 14,398,333 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



3.       Mr C J Lendrum notified the Company on 26 April 2002 that on 26 April
2002 he had exercised 15,000 options granted on 30 August 1995 at a price of
704p under the Barclays PLC Renewed 1986 Executive Share Option Scheme and on 26
April 2002 he sold all of these shares at a price of 2422p.



Following this transaction, Mr Lendrum has a beneficial interest in 42,272
ordinary shares in Barclays PLC.





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