Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
28 October 2002


                                                                 28 October 2002

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

1.       The trustees of the Barclays Qualifying Employee Share Ownership Trust
(the 'Quest') notified the Company on 28 October 2002 that they subscribed for a
total of 14,857 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 28 October 2002 at a price of
456.25p per share.  Following this transaction, the trustees of the Quest held a
total of 14,857 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 trustees of the Quest also notified the Company on 28 October 2002 that they
had transferred 14,857 Barclays PLC ordinary shares on 28 October 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 (PSP & ESOS) Trust (the 'trust') 
notified the Company on 28 October 2002 that it had on 21 October 2002
exercised its discretion and released 43,904 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC
to participants who exercised their awards under the Barclays Group
Performance Share Plan ('PSP').  None of these shares were released to a
director of Barclays PLC.

3. The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit Trust
(the 'Trust') notified the Company on 28 October 2002 that it purchased a
total of 485,195 ordinary shares on 23 October 2002 at a price of 445.48p
per share.

4. The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit
Trust, (the 'trust') notified the Company on 28 October 2002 that it had on
25 October 2002 exercised its discretion and released 1,721 ordinary shares
in Barclays PLC to a participant in the Executive Share Award Scheme ('ESAS').  
The participant to whom shares were released is not a director of Barclays PLC.

5. The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Supplementary Trust (the
'ESAS Supplementary trust') notified the Company on 28 October 2002 that it
had on 23 October 2002 purchased a total of 28,460 ordinary shares in
Barclays PLC at a price of 445.48p per share.

6. The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (PSP & ESOS) Supplementary
Trust (the 'PSP & ESOS Supplementary trust') notified the Company on 28
October 2002 that it had on 21 October 2002 exercised its discretion and
released 3,486 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC.  None of these shares were
released to directors of Barclays PLC.

Following these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group employees'
benefit trusts hold a total of 70,435,462 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC. Sir
Peter Middleton, Mr M W Barrett, 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.


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