Directors' Interests

Barclays PLC
25 February 2004



                                                               25 February 2004





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



The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit Trust
notified the Company on 24 February 2004 that it had on 23 February 2004 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 23
February 2001 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
2001.  The total exercise price payable on any exercise of an ESAS option is £1.


Director                                                   Shares Awarded
Mr M W Barrett                                             49,821
Mr C J Lendrum                                             20,518
Mr J S Varley                                              20,518
Mr G Hoffman                                               14,654
Mr D Roberts                                               9,759
Mr R Davis                                                 108,435



Following these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group employees'
benefit trusts hold a total of 92,606,017 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC. Sir
Peter Middleton, Chairman, and the executive 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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