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 today that
the following directors and Person Discharging Managerial Responsibilities
("PDMR"), as participants in the Diageo Dividend Reinvestment Plan (the "Plan")
received ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence in the Company ("Ordinary Shares")
in respect of the final dividend paid on 20 October 2008, as follows:

Name of Director                  Number of Ordinary Shares                
                                                                           
Dr FB Humer                       19                                       
                                                                           
NC Rose                           10,363                                   
                                                                           
Name of PDMR                                                               
                                                                           
G Williams                        49*                                      

The Ordinary Shares were purchased on 20 October 2008 (with a settlement date
of 23 October 2008) at an average price of £8.756.

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                           6,070                                    
                                                                               
NC Rose                               446,099                                  
                                                                               
Name of PDMR                                                                   
                                                                               
G Williams                            243,524 (of which 5,812 are held in the  
                                      form of ADS**)                           

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

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

23 October 2008