Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO: Regulatory Information Service

PR Newswire

RE: Paragraph 3.1.4 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules

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

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that on 30 September 2009 it received
notification:

1) that Gareth Williams, a person discharging managerial responsibility
("PDMR"), exercised an option on 23 September 2009 over 49,847 ordinary shares
of 28 101/108 pence each ("Ordinary Share") granted on 11 October 2004 at a
price per share of £7.07 under the Company's Senior Executive Share Option Plan
("SESOP").

Mr Williams subsequently sold 49,487 Ordinary Shares, on 23 September 2009, at
a price per share of £9.80.

2) that Ian Wright, a PDMR, sold 7,500 Ordinary Shares at a price per share of
£9.65.

As a result of the above transaction the interests of Mr Williams and Mr
Wright's in the Company's Ordinary Shares and American Depositary Shares
("ADS") (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests as
potential beneficiaries of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts) are:

Name of PDMR       No. of Ordinary Shares                                    
                                                                             
Mr Williams        244,290 (of which 5,992 are held in the form of ADS*s)    
                                                                             
Mr Wright          22,987                                                    

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.

P D Tunnacliffe

Company Secretary

30 September 2009