Employees' Benefit Trust

Barclays PLC
31 October 2000


NOTIFICATION OF INTEREST: COMPANIES ACT 1985 s.329
   
   
   
The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit
Trust (the 'trust') notified the Company on 30 October 2000 that they had:

on 27 October 2000 purchased a total of 46,109 ordinary shares at a price of
1906p per share.   None of the shares purchased was in respect of an award
made to a director of Barclays PLC; and

on 27 October 2000 released 14,880 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC to a
participant in the Executive Share Award Scheme.  The participant to whom
shares were released is not a director of Barclays PLC.

The trust is a discretionary trust for the benefit of employees and former
employees (and their families) of Barclays Bank PLC and its subsidiaries.

Following these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group
employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 7,882,756 shares in Barclays PLC
in which the following directors of Barclays PLC have an interest as
potential beneficiaries: Sir Peter Middleton, Mr M W Barrett, Mr D P Allvey,
Sir Andrew Large, Mr C J Lendrum, Mr J M Stewart and Mr J S Varley.