Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
09 June 2003



                                                                     9 June 2003



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





1.       The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit
Trust, (the 'ESAS trust') notified the Company on 9 June 2003 that it had on 3
June 2003 exercised its discretion and released 9,396 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.



2.       The trustee of the Barclays Group Share Incentive Plan ('the SIP')
informed the Company on 9 June 2003 that on 9 June 2003 it had purchased, and
now held as bare trustee under the SIP, the following ordinary shares in the
capital of Barclays PLC for the following directors at a price of 442p per
share:


Director              Number of Shares

Mr C J Lendrum        29
Mr J S Varley         29





The revised total shareholding for each director following these transactions,
is as follows:




Director             Beneficial Holding           Non Beneficial Holding


Mr C J Lendrum       220,236                      -
Mr J S Varley        303,572                      -





Following these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group employees'
benefit trusts hold a total of 81,816,302 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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