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 on 16 October 2009 it received
notification:

1) that Philip Scott, a director, had purchased 20,000 ordinary shares of 28
101/108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") on 16 October 2009, at a
price per Ordinary Share of £9.55.

As a result of the above transaction, Mr Scott's interests in the Company's
Ordinary Shares is 25,000.

2) that Gareth Williams, a person discharging managerial responsibility
("PDMR"), exercised an option on 15 October 2009 over 36,407 Ordinary Shares
granted on 11 October 2004 at a price per share of £7.07 under the Company's
Senior Executive Share Option Plan.

Mr Williams subsequently sold 35,207 Ordinary Shares, on 15 October 2009, at a
price per share of £9.70. Mr Williams retained the beneficial ownership of the
balance of 1,200 Ordinary Shares.

As a result of the above transactions the interests of Mr Williams in the
Company's Ordinary Shares and American Depositary Shares ("ADS") (excluding
options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests as a potential
beneficiary of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts) is 245,509 (of which
5,992 are held in the form of ADSs*)

P D Tunnacliffe

Company Secretary

16 October 2009

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.