Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO: Regulatory Information Service

PR Newswire

RE: Paragraph 3.1.4 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules

The notifications below were received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the Disclosure
and Transparency Rules.

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that:

1. it received notification on 25 April 2007 that Mr PS Walsh, a director, had
exercised options on 25 April 2007 over 72,189 Ordinary Shares of 28 101/108
pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") granted on 13 September 2000 at a
price per share of £5.87 under the Company's Senior Executive Share Option
Plan. Mr Walsh subsequently sold 62,189 Ordinary Shares, on 25 April 2007, at a
price per share of £10.49.

Mr Walsh retains beneficial ownership of the balance of 10,000 Ordinary Shares.

2. it received notification on 25 April 2007 that the following Persons
Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR"), as participants in the
dividend reinvestment programme connected with the Company's US Employee Stock
Purchase Plan (also known as the US Sharevalue Plan) (the "Plan"), received
American Depository Shares ("ADS") in respect of the Company's interim dividend
paid on 16 April 2007, as follows:

Name of PDMR                                Number of ADSs                   
                                                                             
I Menezes                                   28                               
                                                                             
T Proctor                                   17                               
                                                                             
G Williams                                  12                               

The ADSs were purchased on 16 April 2007 at a price of $82.81 per ADS.

3. it received notification on 25 April 2007 that Mr Williams, as a participant
in the dividend reinvestment programme connected with Plan, received 19 ADSs in
respect of the Company's final dividend paid on 27 October 2006. The ADSs were
purchased on 30 October 2006 at a price of $74.40 per ADS.

4. it received notification on 25 April 2007 that Messrs Menezes and Proctor
each purchased 406 ADSs under the Plan on 29 December 2006 at a price of $49.26
per ADS.

5. it received notification on 25 April 2007 that the interests of Mr R
Malcolm, a PDMR, which were announced most recently on 5 April 2007 as 22,717
ADSs, are in fact 20,000 ADSs. The difference between the two figures
represents ADSs incorrectly attributed to Mr Malcolm in the Company's
historical records.

As a result of the above transactions, the interests of directors and PDMRs in
the Company's Ordinary Shares (excluding options, awards under the Company's
LTIPs and interests as potential beneficiaries of the Company's Employee
Benefit Trusts) are as follows:

Name of Director                      Number of Ordinary Shares                
                                                                               
PS Walsh                              632,297                                  
                                                                               
Name of PDMR                          Number of Ordinary Shares                
                                                                               
I Menezes                             271,094*                                 
                                                                               
G Williams                            208,473**                                
                                                                               
                                      Number of ADSs                           
                                                                               
R Malcolm                             20,000                                   
                                                                               
T Proctor                             27,464                                   
                                                                               

* Of which 178,096 are held in the form of ADSs.

** Of which 5,684 are held in the form of ADSs.

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

26 April 2007