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 on 11
November 2009 that Andrew Morgan, a Person Discharging Managerial
Responsibilities, exercised options on 11 November 2009 over 132,897 ordinary
shares of 28 101/108 pence in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") granted on 10
March 2003 at a price per share of £6.49 under the Company's Senior Executive
Share Option Plan ("SESOP") and over 134,371 Ordinary Shares granted on 11
October 2004 at a price per share of £7.07 under the SESOP.

Mr Morgan subsequently sold 264,595 Ordinary Shares on 11 November 2009, at a
price per share of £10.19. Mr Morgan retains the balance of 2,673 Ordinary
Shares.

As a result of the above transactions, the interests of Mr Morgan 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 179,830.

P D Tunnacliffe

Company Secretary

12 November 2009