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 it received notification today that
the following directors and Person Discharging Managerial Responsibilities
("PDMR"), as participants in the Diageo Dividend Reinvestment Plan (the "Plan")
had received ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence in the Company ("Ordinary
Shares") in lieu of the interim dividend paid on 6 April 2009 as follows:

Name of Director                  Number of Ordinary Shares                
                                                                           
Dr FB Humer                                          102                   
                                                                           
NC Rose                                             7,624                  
                                                                           
Name of PDMR                                                               
                                                                           
G Williams*                                          37                    

The Ordinary Shares were purchased on 6 April 2009 (with a settlement date of 9
April 2009) at an average price of £8.017.

As a result of the above transaction, these directors' and PDMR's interests 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) have increased as follows:

Name of Director                     Number of Ordinary Shares                 
                                                                               
Dr FB Humer                                          10,616                    
                                                                               
NC Rose                                              453,828                   
                                                                               
Name of PDMR                         Number of Ordinary Shares                 
                                                                               
G Williams                           243,770 (of which 5,916 are held in the   
                                                 form of ADS**)                

* In respect of shares held by his son David Rhys Williams.

9 April 2009

**1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.