Purchase of Own Securities

Barclays PLC
19 March 2004


Barclays PLC

Share Repurchase


Barclays PLC announces that on 19 March 2004 it purchased for cancellation
1,000,000 of its Ordinary Shares at a price of 482.4078 pence per share.


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