Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO: Regulatory Information Service

PR Newswire

RE: PARAGRAPH 3.1.4 OF

THE DISCLOSURE RULES

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

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that it today received notification from
Mr Ivan Menezes, a Person Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR"),
that on 11 September 2006 he exercised options over 54,692 American Depository
Shares ("ADS")* granted on 11 October 2002 at a price per ADS of $47.31 under
the Company's Senior Executive Share Option Plan and sold 54,692 ADSs at a
price of $70.25 per ADS.

As a result of the above, Mr Menezes's interest in Ordinary Shares in the
Company (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interest as a
potential beneficiary of the Company's employee benefit trusts) is 240,854, of
which 36,964 are held in the form of ADS*.

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

12 September 2006