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 on 17 June
2010, that the spouse of Mr Gareth Williams, a Person Discharging Managerial
Responsibilities, had on 16 June 2010, sold 31,374 ordinary shares of 28 101/
108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of 1,113 pence per
share.

As a result of the above transactions, the interests of Mr Williams in the
Company's Ordinary Shares (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs
and interests as a potential beneficiary of the Company's Employee Benefit
Trusts) is 185,476 (of which 6,144 are held as American Depositary Shares
("ADS")*).

P D Tunnacliffe

Company Secretary

18 June 2010

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.