Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
05 August 2002


                                                                   5 August 2002


            Notification of directors' interests: Companies Act s329

The following directors of Barclays PLC notified the Company on 2 August 2002
that they purchased on 2 August 2002 the following ordinary shares in Barclays
PLC at a price of 425.5p per share:

DIRECTOR                  BARCLAYS PLC              TOTAL BENEFICIAL          TOTAL
                          SHARES                    INTEREST                  NON-BENEFICIAL INTEREST
                          PURCHASED                 FOLLOWING THIS            FOLLOWING THIS
                                                    NOTIFICATION              NOTIFICATION
                          
T D G Arculus             1,055                     11,391                    -
H M Cropper               1,139                     9,703                     -
Sir Brian Jenkins         548                       3,576                     105,200
Sir Nigel Mobbs           1,187                     46,327                    20,000
Sir Nigel Rudd            1,048                     8,604                     -
S G Russell               1,269                     7,089                     -
G M Wallace               1,112                     3,704                     -


The Company was notified on 2 August 2002 by the Plan Manager of the WPM
Barclays Share Single Company PEP (the 'PEP') that on 2 August 2002, Mr J M
Stewart and his wife, Mrs S A Stewart, had received a total of 5 ordinary shares
in the Company as a result of the 2002 first interim dividend on the shares held
in their PEPs being reinvested at a price of 422.9p per share.  Following these
transactions, Mr J M Stewart, a director of the Company, has a total beneficial
interest in 4,029 ordinary shares in the Company.

As a participant in the Woolwich Sharesave Schemes Mr J M Stewart, together with
other directors and senior executives of Woolwich plc, have interests as
potential discretionary beneficiaries in 1,883,196 Barclays PLC ordinary shares
held by the trustee of the Woolwich Qualifying Employee Share Ownership Trust.

In addition to the interests shown above, the trustees of all the Barclays Group
employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 58,373,499 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.


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