Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO:      Regulatory Information Service                                      
                                                                             
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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 today:

1) the directors shown below were granted the following options over the
Company's ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence ("Ordinary Shares") under the
Company's Senior Executive Share Option Plan (the "SESOP"), approved by
shareholders on 9 November 1999: 

Name of Director                     No. of Ordinary Shares                  
                                                                             
N C Rose                                     243,951                         
                                                                             
P S Walsh                                    423,387                         

2) the Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR") shown below
were granted the following options over Ordinary Shares or American Depositary
Shares ("ADS") under the SESOP: 

Name of PDMR                         No. of Ordinary Shares                  
                                                                             
S Fletcher                                   107,795                         
                                                                             
J Grover                                      87,903                         
                                                                             
A Morgan                                     120,967                         
                                                                             
G Williams                                    96,774                         
                                                                             
                                     No. of ADS*                             
                                                                             
R Malcolm                                     28,505                         
                                                                             
I Menezes                                     46,621                         
                                                                             
T Proctor                                     35,272                         

Each option was granted at a price of £9.30 per Ordinary Share (or $70.38 per
ADS) and is exercisable between 19 September 2009 and 18 September 2016,
subject to the satisfaction of performance criteria.

3) the directors shown below acquired an interest in Ordinary Shares in the
form of awards under the Company's Long Term Incentive Plan, known as the Total
Shareholder Return plan (the "TSR Plan"), approved by shareholders on 11 August
1998, as follows: 

Name of Director                     No. of Ordinary Shares                  
                                                                             
N C Rose                                     213,027                         
                                                                             
P S Walsh                                    462,147                         

4) the PDMRs shown below acquired an interest in Ordinary Shares or ADSs in the
form of awards under the TSR Plan, as follows: 

Name of PDMR                         No. of Ordinary Shares                  
                                                                             
S Fletcher                                   105,897                         
                                                                             
J Grover                                      86,355                         
                                                                             
A Morgan                                     118,838                         
                                                                             
G Williams                                    95,070                         
                                                                             
                                     No. of ADS*                             
                                                                             
R Malcolm                                     26,298                         
                                                                             
I Menezes                                     43,011                         
                                                                             
T Proctor                                     32,541                         

The numbers shown above for each director and PDMR is the maximum number of
shares which could be transferred upon achieving top performance (1st or 2nd
position) by reference to Diageo's seventeen company peer group used in the
performance test for the 2006 awards under the TSR Plan. At position 9 within
the TSR peer group 23.3% of the above shares would be transferred.

The performance period commenced on 1 July 2006 and, subject to the rules of
the TSR Plan and depending on Diageo's TSR performance relative to its peer
groups, the awards will be released in September 2009.

5) Mr I Menezes, a PDMR, acquired an interest in 62,162 ADSs in the form of a
one-off award under the Company's Discretionary Incentive Plan ("DIP"), adopted
on 9 November 1999.

There are no performance conditions attached to the release of this award under
the DIP, and the award will vest in three instalments: 20% in September 2009,
30% in September 2010 and 50% in September 2011.

6) Mr PS Walsh, a director, notified the Company that on 19 September 2006, he
sold 100,000 Ordinary Shares at a price per share of £9.41.

As a result of this sale, Mr Walsh's 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) is 563,097.

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

19 September 2006