Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO: Regulatory Information Service

PR Newswire

RE: Paragraph 3.1.4 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules

The notifications below were received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the Disclosure
and Transparency Rules.

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that it received notification today that:

1. 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) (the "Plan"), received American Depository Shares ("ADS") in lieu of the
Company's interim dividend paid on 14 April 2009, as follows:

Name of PDMR                                Number of ADSs*                  
                                                                             
G Ghostine                                  14                               
                                                                             
I Menezes                                   68                               
                                                                             
R Millian                                   26                               
                                                                             
T Proctor                                   42                               
                                                                             
L Schwartz                                  48                               
                                                                             
G Williams                                  19                               

The ADSs were purchased on 14 April 2009 at a price of $46.805 per ADS.

2. Mr Schwartz, as a participant in the dividend reinvestment programme
connected with the Plan, received 68 ADSs in lieu of the Company's final
dividend paid on 24 October 2008. 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 the 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 Ordinary Shares                       
                                                                               
G Ghostine                     40,056 (of which 32,708 are held as ADS*)       
                                                                               
I Menezes                      319,541 (of which 226,543 are held as ADS*)     
                                                                               
G Williams                     243,870 (of which 5,992 are held as ADS*)       
                                                                               
                               Number of ADSs*                                 
                                                                               
R Millian                      9,693                                           
                                                                               
T Proctor                      38,056                                          
                                                                               
L Schwartz                     4,135                                           
                                                                               

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.

P D Tunnacliffe

Company Secretary

20 April 2009