Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO:      Regulatory Information Service                                    
                                                                           
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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
Gareth Williams, a Person Discharging Managerial Responsibilities, exercised an
option on 11 December 2009 over 105,214 ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence
each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") granted on 20 September 2005 at a price
per share of £8.15 under the Company's Senior Executive Share Option Plan.

Mr Williams subsequently sold 104,000 Ordinary Shares on 11 December 2009, at a
price per share of £10.55. Mr Williams retains the balance of 1,214 Ordinary
Shares.

As a result of the above transaction, the interests of Mr Williams in the
Company's Ordinary Shares (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs
and interests as a potential beneficiary of the Company's Employee Benefit
Trusts) has increased to 216,661 (of which 6,088 are held in the form of
American Depositary Shares ("ADS"*).

P D Tunnacliffe

Company Secretary

14 December 2009

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.