Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO: Regulatory Information Service

PR Newswire

RE: Paragraph 3.1.4 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules

The notification below was received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the Disclosure and
Transparency Rules.

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that it received notification today that
the following Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR"), as
participants in the dividend reinvestment programme connected with the
Company's US Employee Stock Purchase Plan (also known as the US Sharevalue
Plan), received American Depository Shares ("ADS") in respect of the Company's
final dividend paid on 23 October 2009, as follows:

Name of PDMR                 Number of ADSs*                                 
                                                                             
G Ghostine                   18                                              
                                                                             
I Menezes                    91                                              
                                                                             
R Millian                    35                                              
                                                                             
T Proctor                    56                                              
                                                                             
G Williams                   25                                              

The ADSs were purchased on 23 October 2009 at a price of $63.271 per ADS.

As a result of the above transactions, the interests of PDMRs in the Company's
ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence ("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                       
                                                                             
G Ghostine                   40,038 (of which 32,780 are held in the form of 
                             ADS*)                                           
                                                                             
I Menezes                    323,904 (of which 230,906 are held in the form  
                             of ADS*)                                        
                                                                             
G Williams                   245,653 (of which 6,088 are held in the form of 
                             ADS*)                                           
                                                                             
                             Number of ADSs*                                 
                                                                             
R Millian                    9,728                                           
                                                                             
T Proctor                    38,112                                          

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.

P D Tunnacliffe

Company Secretary

4 November 2009