Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO: Regulatory Information Service

PR Newswire

RE: Paragraph 3.1.4 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules

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

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that it received notification today that
the grant of options to subscribe for American Depositary Shares ("ADS") under
the Company's US Employee Stock Purchase Plan (also known as the US Sharevalue
Plan) to the following Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR")
had been confirmed on 24 November 2008:

Name of PDMR    Grant Date      No of ADS*  Grant price Exercisable        
                                granted     per ADS*                       
                                                                           
I Menezes       1 October 2008  336.8137    $59.38      31 December 2009   
                                                                           
R Millian       1 October 2008  84.2034     $59.38      31 December 2009   
                                                                           
T Proctor       1 October 2008  336.8137    $59.38      31 December 2009   
                                                                           
Larry Schwartz  1 October 2008  336.8137    $59.38      31 December 2009   

P D Tunnacliffe

Company Secretary

24 November 2008

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the
Company.