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 on 2
September 2008 from Mr A Morgan, a Person Discharging Managerial
Responsibilities, that he had exercised the following options over Ordinary
Shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") under the
Company's Senior Executive Share Option Plan, on 2 September 2008:

Grant Date              No of Ordinary Shares Grant price per Ordinary
                        granted               Share                   
                                                                      
13 September 2000       5,110                 £5.87                   
                                                                      
12 September 2001       137,555               £6.87                   
                                                                      
11 September 2002       141,625               £7.59                   
                                                                      

Mr Morgan subsequently sold 277,182 Ordinary Shares, on 2 September 2008, at a
price per share of £10.05, and retains beneficial ownership of the balance of
7,108 Ordinary Shares.

As a result of the above, Mr Morgan'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 now 159,059.

3 September 2008