Notification of Interest

Barclays PLC
15 December 2000


             NOTIFICATION OF INTEREST: COMPANIES ACT 1985 s.329
                                      
The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Supplementary Trust
(the 'ESAS Supplementary trust') notified the Company on 14 December 2000
that they had on 13 December 2000 purchased a total of 2,774 ordinary shares
at a price of 2086p per share.   None of the shares purchased was in respect
of an award made to a director of Barclays PLC.

The ESAS supplementary 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 7,906,536 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,
Sir Andrew Large, Mr C J Lendrum, Mr J M Stewart and Mr J S Varley.