Purchase of Own Securities

Barclays PLC
3 May 2002





                                  Barclays PLC



                                SHARE REPURCHASE



Barclays PLC announces that on 3rd   May 2002 it purchased for cancellation
150,000 of its Ordinary  shares at a price of  620 pence per share.






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