Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO:      Regulatory Information Service                                      
                                                                             
         PR Newswire                                                         
                                                                             
RE:      PARAGRAPH 3.1.4 OF                                                  
                                                                             
         THE DISCLOSURE RULES                                                

The notifications listed below are each in respect of a single transaction of
which notification was received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the Disclosure Rules
and, in respect of directors of Diageo plc only, Section 324 of the Companies
Act 1985.

Diageo plc (the 'Company') announces that on 2 September 2005 it received
notification of transactions by the trustee of the Diageo Employee Benefit
Trust (the 'Employee Benefit Trust') as detailed below. The Employee Benefit
Trust is a discretionary trust for the benefit of employees of the Company and
its subsidiaries and operates primarily in conjunction with the Company's Long
Term Incentive Plan, now called the Total Shareholder Return plan (the 'TSR'),
approved by shareholders on 11 August 1998.

1) the directors shown below acquired, on 2 September 2005, an interest in the
Company's ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence ('Ordinary Shares') in the form
of awards under the TSR, as follows: 

Name of Director                      No. of Ordinary Shares                   
                                                                               
N C Rose                              231,356                                  
                                                                               
P S Walsh                             502,287                                  

2) the 'Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities' shown below acquired,
on 2 September 2005, an interest in Ordinary Shares or American Depository
Shares ('ADS') in the form of awards under the TSR, as follows: 

Name of Person                       No. of Ordinary Shares                  
                                                                             
S Fletcher                           116,287                                 
                                                                             
J Grover                             95,891                                  
                                                                             
A Morgan                             124,811                                 
                                                                             
G Williams                           104,415                                 
                                                                             
Name of Person                       No. of ADS*                             
                                                                             
R Malcolm                            28,013                                  
                                                                             
I Menezes                            43,941                                  
                                                                             
T Proctor                            35,263                                  

* (1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares)

The numbers shown above for each director and Person Discharging Managerial
Responsibilities is the maximum number of shares which could be transferred
upon achieving top performance (1st or 2nd position) by reference to Diageo's
eighteen company peer group used in the performance test for the 2005 awards
under the TSR. At position 9 within the TSR peer group 23.3% of the above
shares would be transferred.

The performance period commenced on 1 July 2005 and, subject to the rules of
the TSR and achievement of the performance requirement, the awards will be
released on 30 June 2008.

2 September 2005