Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
08 December 2003


                                                                 8 December 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 8 December 2003 that it 
     had on 2 December purchased a total of 8,141 ordinary shares in Barclays 
     PLC at a price of 460.35p per share.  None of the shares purchased was in 
     respect of an award made to a director of Barclays PLC.


2.   The trustee of the Barclays Group Share Incentive Plan ('the SIP')
     informed the Company on 8 December 2003 that on 8 December 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 495p per share:


Director              Number of Shares
Mr C J Lendrum        26
Mr J S Varley         26


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


Director             Beneficial Holding           Non Beneficial Holding


Mr C J Lendrum       224,456                      -
Mr J S Varley        303,735                      -


In addition to the interests shown above, the trustees of all the Barclays Group
employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 84,029,952 ordinary shares in Barclays
PLC.  Mr C J Lendrum and Mr J S Varley, directors of Barclays PLC, together with
other directors and senior executives, 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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