Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO: Regulatory Information Service

PR Newswire

RE: Paragraph 3.1.4 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules

The notification below was received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the Disclosure and
Transparency Rules.

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that it received notification on 27
September 2007, that Mr G Williams, a Person Discharging Managerial
Responsibilities, had exercised 98,454 options over Ordinary Shares of 28 101/
108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") granted on 11 October 2002 at
a price per share of £7.59 under the Company's Senior Executive Share Option
Plan, on 27 September 2007. Mr Williams subsequently sold 95,000 Ordinary
Shares, on 27 September 2007, at a price per share of £10.84.

Mr Williams retains beneficial ownership of the balance of 3,454 Ordinary
Shares.

As a result of the above, Mr Williams' interests in the Company's Ordinary
Shares (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests as a
potential beneficiary of the Company's employee benefit trusts) has increased
to 212,302 (of which 5,684 are held in the form of American Depositary Shares
(`ADS')).

1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.

28 September 2007