Director/PDMR Shareholding

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RE:       PARAGRAPH 3.1.4 OF THE DISCLOSURE RULES                              

The notifications in paragraphs numbered 1, 2 and 3 below were received under
Paragraph 3.1.2 of the Disclosure Rules. The notification in paragraph numbered
4 below was received under Section 324 of the Companies Act 1985.

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces receipt of the following notifications.

1. On 25 April 2006 from Mr SR Fletcher, a Person Discharging Managerial
Responsibilities ("PDMR"), that on 19 April 2006, he acquired 86 ordinary
shares of 28 101/108 pence in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of £
8.795 per Ordinary Share, as a result of the reinvestment of the Company's
interim dividend paid on 6 April 2006 on his Ordinary Shares held within an
Individual Savings Account.

2. On 26 April 2006 from Mr G Williams, a PDMR, that on 24 April 2006, he
exercised options over 107,293 Ordinary Shares granted on 12 September 2001 at
a price per Ordinary Share of £6.87 under the Company's Senior Executive Share
Option Plan and sold 105,000 Ordinary Shares at a price of £9.10 per Ordinary
Share.

Mr Williams retained beneficial ownership of the balance of 2,293 Ordinary
Shares.

3. On 26 April 2006 from Mr TD Proctor, a PDMR, that, on 25 April 2006, he sold
24,600 American Depository Shares in the Company ("ADS")* at a price of
US$65.80 per ADS.

As a result of the above transactions, the PDMRs' interests in Ordinary Shares
(excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests as potential
beneficiaries of the Company's employee benefit trusts) is as follows.

Name of PDMR                       Number of Ordinary Shares               
                                                                           
Mr Fletcher                        107,421                                 
                                                                           
Mr Williams**                      188,520                                 
                                                                           
                                   Number of ADS                           
                                                                           
Mr Proctor                         27,020                                  

(*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares. ** Of which 5,423 are held in
the form of ADS.)

4. On 25 April 2006 from Bailhache Labesse Trustees Limited, as trustee of the
Diageo Employee Benefit Trust (the "Trust") that they had, on 25 March 2006,
transferred 7,404 Ordinary Shares to a beneficiary of the Trust upon release of
an award under the Company's Long Term Incentive Plan, now called the Total
Shareholder Return Plan (the "Plan") that was approved by shareholders on 11
August 1998. The Trust is a discretionary trust for the benefit of employees of
the Company and its subsidiaries and operates primarily in conjunction with the
Plan.

As a result of this transaction the total holding of the Trust amounts to
6,460,442 Ordinary Shares.

Directors of the Company who are potential beneficiaries of the Trust are Mr PS
Walsh and Mr NC Rose.

26 April 2006