Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
03 March 2003



                                                                    3 March 2003



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



1.       The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit
Trust, (the 'trust') notified the Company on 3 March 2003 that it had between 24
February and 28 February 2003 exercised its discretion and released 909,132
ordinary shares in Barclays PLC to participants in the Executive Share Award
Scheme ('ESAS').   None of these shares were released to a director of Barclays
PLC.


2.       The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit
Trust (the 'trust') notified the Company on 3 March 2003 that it had on 28
February 2003 purchased 5,778 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC at a price of
359.25p per share and 20,102 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC at a price of
347.50p per share.  None of the shares purchased was in respect of an award made
to a director of Barclays PLC.



3.       The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit
Trust also notified the Company on 3 March 2003 that it had on 21 February 2003
granted rights in the form of nil cost options to the directors of Barclays PLC
listed below under the Barclays PLC Executive Share Award Scheme ('ESAS'), to
acquire ordinary shares in Barclays PLC.   The ESAS options are exercisable from
grant for a period of two years and have been granted over a proportion of the
shares which were originally provisionally allocated by the trustee under ESAS
on 25 February 2000 to the directors listed below.  The number of shares under
option includes an additional number of shares which have accrued in respect of
dividends received by the trustee since February 2000.  The total exercise price
payable on any exercise of an ESAS option is £0.25p.


Director                                                   Shares Awarded
Mr M W Barrett                                             71,711
Mr C J Lendrum                                             21,096
Mr J S Varley                                              29,526





4.       Professor Sandra Dawson notified the Company on 3 March 2003 that she
has a total beneficial interest in 2,000 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC in the
name of Henry R C Dawson, a connected person to Professor Dawson.



Following these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group employees'
benefit trusts hold a total of 85,193,071 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC. Sir
Peter Middleton, Mr M W Barrett, Mr C J Lendrum 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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