Barclays, Base Prospectus 2006

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Group contingent liabilities
Acceptances and endorsements 283
Assets pledged as collateral security 38,035
Other contingent liabilities 8,825
Total contingent liabilities 47,143
Directors
As at the date of this Base Prospectus the following are the Directors of the Issuer: Matthew W. Barrett,
John Varley, Naguib Kheraj, Robert E. Diamond Jr., Gary Hoffman, David Roberts, Sir Nigel Rudd
DL, , Sir Richard Broadbent, Leigh Clifford, Fulvio Conti, Dr. Danie Cronjé, Professor Dame Sandra
Dawson, Sir Andrew Likierman, Stephen Russell, Robert Steel and John Sutherland. The business
address of each of the Directors is 1 Churchill Place, London E14 5HP.