Director/PDMR Shareholding

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

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

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that today it received notification from
Mr I Wright, a Person Discharging Managerial Responsibilities, that he had sold
1,000 Ordinary Shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary
Shares") on 18 December 2008, at a price per Ordinary Share of £9.385.

As a result of the above transaction, Mr Wright's interests in the Ordinary
Shares (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests as a
potential beneficiary of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts) is 29,977.

P D Tunnacliffe

Company Secretary

18 December 2008