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 it received notification:

 1. on 11 June 2010, that the spouse of Mr Stuart Fletcher, a PDMR, had on 11
    June 2010, sold 75,000 ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the
    Company ("Ordinary Shares").
   
 2. on 14 June 2010, that Mr Ivan Menezes, a Person Discharging Managerial
    Responsibilities ("PDMR"), had on 8 June 2010 , transferred 10,739 American
    Depositary Shares in the Company ("ADSs")* held in a grantor retained
    annuity trust ("GRAT") to his own name. Mr Menezes is the grantor and sole
    trustee of the GRAT, and his two children are the beneficiaries.
   
As a result of the above transactions, the interests of Mr Fletcher and Mr
Menezes 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 PDMR       Number of Ordinary Shares                         
                                                                     
Mr Fletcher        92,659                                            
                                                                     
Mr Menezes         325,468 (of which 232,470 are held in the form of 
                   ADS).                                             

P D Tunnacliffe

Company Secretary

14 June 2010

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.