Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO:      Regulatory Information Service                                    
                                                                           
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RE:      Paragraph 3.1.4 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules          

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

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that it received notification:

1. on 1 December 2008, that the following Persons Discharging Managerial
Responsibilities ("PDMR") had on 1 December 2008 received Ordinary Shares of 28
101/108 pence in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") upon the exercise of options
under the Diageo UK Sharesave Scheme 2000, as follows:

Name of PDMR       Grant date           Option Price   No. of Ordinary Shares
                                                                             
D Gosnell          1 December 2003      £5.20          3,048                 
                                                                             
I Wright           1 December 2005      £6.53          572                   
                                                                             

2. on 28 November 2008, that Mr S Fletcher, a PDMR, had transferred 40,000
Ordinary Shares held in his own name to his spouse.

As a result of the above transactions, the interests of 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 PDMR                           No. of Ordinary Shares                
                                                                             
S Fletcher                             151,882                               
                                                                             
D Gosnell                              59,336                                
                                                                             
I Wright                               26,092                                

P D Tunnacliffe

Company Secretary

1 December 2008