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 10 March 2011 acquired an interest in ordinary shares of 28101/108 pence
each ("Ordinary Shares") in the form of a one-off award under the Company's
Discretionary Incentive Plan ("DIP"), adopted on 14 October 2009. There are
performance conditions attached to the release of this award under the DIP, and
the award will vest, subject to achievement of the performance conditions in
two equal instalments in March 2014 and March 2015:

       Name of PDMR         Number of Ordinary Shares  
                                                       
      Andrew Fennell                  59,682           

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

11 March 2011