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 all received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the
Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that:

 1. it received notification on 10 December 2008 of the following allocations
    of ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary
    Shares") under the Diageo Share Incentive Plan (the "Plan"), namely:
   
(i) the following directors of the Company were allocated Ordinary Shares on 10
December 2008 under the Plan, by Diageo Share Ownership Trustees Limited (the
"Trustee"):

Name of Director              Number of Ordinary Shares               
                                                                      
N C Rose                      20                                      
                                                                      
P S Walsh                     20                                      

(ii) the following "Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities" ("PDMR")
were allocated Ordinary Shares on 10 December 2008 under the Plan, by the
Trustee:

Name of PDMR                  Number of Ordinary Shares               
                                                                      
N Blazquez                    20                                      
                                                                      
S Fletcher                    20                                      
                                                                      
D Gosnell                     20                                      
                                                                      
J Grover                      20                                      
                                                                      
A Morgan                      20                                      
                                                                      
G Williams                    20                                      
                                                                      
I Wright                      20                                      

The number of Ordinary Shares allocated comprises those purchased on behalf of
the employee using an amount which the employee has chosen to have deducted
from salary ("Sharepurchase") and those awarded to the employee by the Company
("Sharematch") on the basis of one Sharematch Ordinary Share for every two
Sharepurchase Ordinary Shares.

The Sharepurchase Ordinary Shares were purchased and the Sharematch Ordinary
Shares were awarded at a price per share of £9.50.

The Ordinary Shares are held by the Trustee and in the name of the Trustee.
Sharepurchase Ordinary Shares can normally be sold at any time. Sharematch
Ordinary Shares cannot normally be disposed of for a period of three years
after the award date.

2. it received notification on 10 December 2008 from Dr F B Humer, a director
of the Company, that he has purchased 837 Ordinary Shares on 10 December 2008
under an arrangement with the Company, whereby he has agreed to use an amount
of £8,000 each month, net of tax, from his director's fees to purchase Ordinary
Shares. Dr F B Humer has agreed to retain the Ordinary Shares while he remains
a director of the Company.

The Ordinary Shares were purchased at a price per share of £9.50.

3. it received notification on 10 December 2008 from Mr H T Stitzer, a director
of the Company, that he has purchased 104 Ordinary Shares on 10 December 2008
under an arrangement with the Company, whereby he has agreed to use an amount
of £1,000 each month, net of tax, from his director's fees to purchase Ordinary
Shares.

The Ordinary Shares were purchased at a price per share of £9.50.

 4. it received notification on 9 December 2008 from Mr W S Shanahan, a
    director, that he had sold 2,000 American Depositary Shares in the Company
    (`ADS') on 18 November 2008, at a price of $55.74 per ADS.
   
5. on 9 December 2008, it had announced that, Mr I Wright, a PDMR, had
exercised options over 48,485 Ordinary Shares, before selling 42,230 of the
resulting Ordinary Shares, and retaining ownership of the balance of 6,255
Ordinary Shares.

Due to a clerical error in relation to this exercise of options, another 1,390
Ordinary Shares have today been sold on Mr Wright's behalf, at a price of £9.53
per Ordinary Share.

As a result of the above transactions, 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               
                                                                     
Dr F B Humer                 7,738                                   
                                                                     
N C Rose                     446,138                                 
                                                                     
H T Stitzer                  5,993                                   
                                                                     
P S Walsh                    719,743                                 
                                                                     
Name of Director             Number of ADSs*                         
                                                                     
W S Shanahan                 5,289                                   
                                                                     
Name of PDMR                 Number of Ordinary Shares               
                                                                     
N Blazquez                   42,558                                  
                                                                     
S Fletcher                   151,902                                 
                                                                     
D Gosnell                    59,356                                  
                                                                     
J Grover                     196,346                                 
                                                                     
A Morgan                     176,610                                 
                                                                     
G Williams                   243,667 (of which 5,916 are held in the 
                             form of ADS*)                           
                                                                     
I Wright                     30,977                                  

P D Tunnacliffe

Company Secretary

10 December 2008

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.