Corporate Governance

	Directors: interests in ordinary shares of Barclays PLC (a)
			At 1st January 2000 (b)		31st December 2000
			Beneficial Non-beneficial		Beneficial Non-beneficial
	Chairman
	Sir Peter Middleton		34,995	17,000	34,533	22,900
	Executive
	MW Barrett		25,000	–	25,000	–
	CJ Lendrum		35,905	–	36,247	–
	JM Stewart (C)		270	–	642	–
	JS Varley		20,464	–	33,863	–
	Non-executive
	TDG Arculus		1,962	–	2,249	–
	ME Baker (d)		3,354	–	3,654	–
	HM Cropper		1,346	–	1,792	–
	PJ Jarvis		2,686	–	3,790	–
	Sir Brian Jenkins		74	–	500	26,300
	Sir Andrew Large		799	–	799	7,500
	Sir Nigel Mobbs		10,615	5,000	10,914	5,000
	Sir Nigel Rudd		1,224	–	1,511	–
	SG Russell		689	–	1,109	–

Notes (a) Beneficial interests in the table above represent shares held by Directors, either directly or through a nominee, their spouse and children under 18. They include any interests held through the 1991 UK Profit Sharing Schemes (PSS), but do not include any awards under ESAS, ISOP, PSP, ESOP, SAYE schemes or under The Woolwich Sharesave or the Woolwich plc 2000 Sharesave Scheme (together The Woolwich SAYE), or The Woolwich ESOP. At 31st December 2000 Sir Peter Middleton, Sir Andrew Large and the executive Directors, together with other senior executives, were potential beneficiaries in respect of a total of 7,724,782 Barclays PLC ordinary shares (1st January 2000 9,055,824) held by the trustees of the Barclays Group Employees’ Benefit Trusts At 7th February 2001 a total of 7,724,689 shares were held by the trustees. (b) Or date appointed to the Board, if later. (c) At 31st December 2000 Mr Stewart, together with other senior executives from The Woolwich, was a potential beneficiary in respect of a total of 474,306 Barclays PLC ordinary shares held by the trustee of the Woolwich Qualifying Employee Share Ownership Trust. At 7th February 2001 a total of 470,799 shares were held by the trustee. (d) Mary Baker retired from the Board on 31st December 2000. There were no changes in any of the Directors’ interests in shares shown above between 31st December 2000 and 7th February 2001.