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 Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR"), as
participants in the dividend reinvestment programme connected with the
Company's US Employee Stock Purchase Plan (also known as the US Sharevalue
Plan), received American Depository Shares ("ADS") in respect of the Company's
final dividend paid on 24 October 2008, as follows:

Name of PDMR                 Number of ADSs*                                 
                                                                             
G Ghostine                   19                                              
                                                                             
I Menezes                    96                                              
                                                                             
R Millian                    37                                              
                                                                             
T Proctor                    59                                              
                                                                             
G Williams                   26                                              

The ADSs were purchased on 24 October 2008 at a price of $58.08 per ADS.

As a result of the above transactions, the interests of PDMRs in the Company's
ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence ("Ordinary Shares") (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 Ordinary Shares                       
                                                                               
G Ghostine                     40,000 (of which 32,652 are held in the form of 
                               ADS*)                                           
                                                                               
I Menezes                      319,270 (of which 226,272 are held in the form  
                               of ADS*)                                        
                                                                               
G Williams                     243,628 (of which 5,916 are held in the form of 
                               ADS*)                                           
                                                                               
                               Number of ADSs*                                 
                                                                               
R Millian                      9,667                                           
                                                                               
T Proctor                      38,013                                          
                                                                               

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.

P D Tunnacliffe

Company Secretary

30 October 2008