Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO:       Regulatory Information Service                                      
                                                                              
          PR Newswire                                                         
                                                                              
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 yesterday
that the following Person Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR") had
on 1 March 2011 transferred the below listed ordinary shares of 28 101/108
pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") held in his own name to his
spouse:

Name of PDMR                                 Number of Ordinary Shares         
                                             transferred to spouse             
                                                                               
Nicholas Blazquez       Mrs Alison Blazquez  10,818                            

The interests of the PDMR in the Company's Ordinary Shares (excluding options,
awards under the Company's LTIPs and interest as potential beneficiary of the
Company's Employee Benefit Trusts) are unchanged as a result of the above
transaction.

J Nicholls

Deputy Company Secretary

2 March 2011