Barclays PLC today publishes its seventh annual Corporate Responsibility report, available online and in pdf form from www.barclays.co.uk/corporateresponsibility

The report marks a step change in Barclays approach to non financial reporting and disclosure, and reflects the feedback received on the previous year’s report. Based around the theme of Responsible Banking, the issues-based report seeks to set out Barclays stance on the key issues of the corporate responsibility agenda including responsible lending to consumers, how the bank deals with major project finance transactions, its approach to tackling climate change and its strategy for growth in Africa.

Assurance for this year’s report has been provided by the Corporate Citizenship Company, with the process being based upon the guidelines of the AA1000 Assurance Standard, and with regard to the reporting principles in the GRI guidelines.

Barclays is a founder member of the Business Leaders’ Initiative on Human Rights, and the report also describes the bank’s work in exploring how companies can best integrate human rights issues into decision making processes.

The report, introduced by Chief Executive John Varley, sets out not only what Barclays is doing, but the external environment in which the bank is operating and how it will meet its objective of being a leading company in the field of corporate responsibility.

Any questions or feedback on the report should be directed to corporate.responsibility@barclays.com

Barclays is an international financial services group, with a major presence in Europe, the USA, Africa and Asia. It is engaged primarily in banking, investment banking and investment management. In terms of market capitalisation, Barclays is one of the largest financial services companies in the world.

Barclays has been involved in banking for over 300 years and operates in over 60 countries with more than 120,000 permanent employees.

Visit www.CorporateRegister.com to access this publication together with a further 11,000 CSR reports.