Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO: Regulatory Information Service

PR Newswire

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 on 17 October 2008 it received the
following notifications from the trustee of the Diageo Employee Benefit Trust
(the `Employee Benefit Trust') as detailed below. The Employee Benefit Trust is
a discretionary trust for the benefit of employees of the Company and its
subsidiaries.

a) Appleby Trust (Jersey) Limited, as trustee of the Employee Benefit Trust
(the `Trustee'), had on 17 October 2008, released ordinary shares of 28 101/108
pence of the Company (Ordinary Shares') and American Depositary Shares (`ADSs')
to Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility (`PDMR'), under the Diageo
Incentive Plan (the `DIP') as follows: 

Name of PDMR                         Number of ADSs*                         
                                                                             
Ron Anderson                         4,034                                   
                                                                             
Randy Millian                        2,170                                   
                                                                             
                                     Number of Ordinary Shares               
                                                                             
John Pollaers                        5,492                                   

The awards were made on 10 October 2003.

b) the Trustee had, on 17 October 2008, made the following sale of ADSs to meet
the requirement to reimburse the Company for PAYE tax and National Insurance/
social security liabilities on awards released under the DIP on behalf of PDMRs
as follows:

Name of PDMR                No. ADSs Sold           Sale Price of ADSs       
                                                                             
Ron Anderson                1,638                   $58.06                   
                                                                             
Randy Millian               791                     $58.06                   

As a result of the above release of awards the interests of PDMRs in the
Company's Ordinary Shares and ADSs (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                         Number of ADSs*                         
                                                                             
Randy Millian                        9,630                                   
                                                                             
                                     Number of Ordinary Shares               
                                                                             
Ron Anderson                         46,705 (of which 9,584 are held as ADSs)
                                                                             
John Pollaers                        60, 347                                 

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.



20 October 2008