Notification of Interests

Barclays PLC
16 January 2001

                                                               16 January 2001

              NOTIFICATION OF INTEREST: COMPANIES ACT 1985 s.329

The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit Trust
(the 'ESAS trust') notified the Company on 15 January 2001 that they had on 12
January 2001 released 93 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC to a participant in
the Barclays Executive Share Award Scheme. The shares were released to the
participant because an error was made in an earlier release on 21 December
2000. The participant is not a director of Barclays PLC.

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

Following this transaction, the trustees of all the Barclays Group employees'
benefit trusts hold a total of 7,724,689 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.