Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO:      Regulatory Information Service                                        
                                                                               
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RE:      PARAGRAPH 3.1.4 OF THE DISCLOSURE AND TRANSPARENCY RULES              

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

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that:

 1. it received notification on 12 January 2009 of the following allocations of
    ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares")
    under the Diageo Share Incentive Plan (the "Plan"), namely:
   
(i) the following directors of the Company were allocated Ordinary Shares on 12
January 2009 under the Plan, by Diageo Share Ownership Trustees Limited (the
"Trustee"):

Name of Director              Number of Ordinary Shares               
                                                                      
N C Rose                      21                                      
                                                                      
P S Walsh                     21                                      

(ii) the following "Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities" ("PDMR")
were allocated Ordinary Shares on 12 January 2009 under the Plan, by the
Trustee:

Name of PDMR                  Number of Ordinary Shares               
                                                                      
N Blazquez                    19                                      
                                                                      
S Fletcher                    21                                      
                                                                      
D Gosnell                     21                                      
                                                                      
J Grover                      21                                      
                                                                      
A Morgan                      21                                      
                                                                      
G Williams                    21                                      
                                                                      
I Wright                      21                                      

The number of Ordinary Shares allocated comprises those purchased on behalf of
the employee using an amount which the employee has chosen to have deducted
from salary ("Sharepurchase") and those awarded to the employee by the Company
("Sharematch") on the basis of one Sharematch Ordinary Share for every two
Sharepurchase Ordinary Shares.

The Sharepurchase Ordinary Shares were purchased and the Sharematch Ordinary
Shares were awarded at a price per share of £9.39.

The Ordinary Shares are held by the Trustee and in the name of the Trustee.
Sharepurchase Ordinary Shares can normally be sold at any time. Sharematch
Ordinary Shares cannot normally be disposed of for a period of three years
after the award date.

2. it received notification on 12 January 2009 from Dr F B Humer, a director of
the Company, that he has purchased 847 Ordinary Shares on 12 January 2009 under
an arrangement with the Company, whereby he has agreed to use an amount of £
8,000 each month, net of tax, from his director's fees to purchase Ordinary
Shares. Dr F B Humer has agreed to retain the Ordinary Shares while he remains
a director of the Company.

The Ordinary Shares were purchased at a price per share of £9.39.

3. it received notification on 12 January 2009 from Mr H T Stitzer, a director
of the Company, that he has purchased 106 Ordinary Shares on 12 January 2009
under an arrangement with the Company, whereby he has agreed to use an amount
of £1,000 each month, net of tax, from his director's fees to purchase Ordinary
Shares.

The Ordinary Shares were purchased at a price per share of £9.39.

4. it received notification on 12 January 2009, that Mr N Blazquez, a PDMR, had
on 12 January 2009 received Ordinary Shares upon the exercise of options under
the Diageo UK Sharesave Scheme 2000, as follows:

Name of PDMR        Grant date           Option Price    No. of Ordinary Shares
                                                                               
N Blazquez          6 November 2003      £5.20           609                   

As a result of the above transactions, interests of directors and PDMRs 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) are as follows:

Name of Director             Number of Ordinary Shares               
                                                                     
Dr F B Humer                 8,585                                   
                                                                     
N C Rose                     446,159                                 
                                                                     
H T Stitzer                  6,099                                   
                                                                     
P S Walsh                    719,764                                 
                                                                     
Name of PDMR                 Number of Ordinary Shares               
                                                                     
N Blazquez                   43,186                                  
                                                                     
S Fletcher                   151,923                                 
                                                                     
D Gosnell                    59,377                                  
                                                                     
J Grover                     149,525                                 
                                                                     
A Morgan                     176,631                                 
                                                                     
G Williams                   243,688 (of which 5,916 are held in the 
                             form of ADS*)                           
                                                                     
I Wright                     29,998                                  

P D Tunnacliffe

Company Secretary

12 January 2009

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.