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:

 1. from Gareth Williams, a Person Discharging Managerial Responsibilities
    ("PDMR"), that his wife had sold 30,242 ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence
    in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") on 16 November 2009 at a price per share
    of £10.22.
   
 2. from Stuart Fletcher, a PDMR, that he had exercised options today over
    117,177 Ordinary Shares granted on 20 September 2005 at a price per share
    of £8.15 under the Company's Senior Executive Share Option Plan ("SESOP")
    and over 107,795 Ordinary Shares granted on 19 September 2006 at a price
    per share of £9.30 under the SESOP.
   
Mr Fletcher subsequently sold 210,000 Ordinary Shares on 17 November 2009, at a
price per share of £10.32. Mr Fletcher retains the balance of 14,972 Ordinary
Shares.

As a result of the above transactions, interests of PDMRs 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              
                                                                        
S Fletcher                       167,536                                
                                                                        
G Williams                       215,429 (of which 6,088 are held in the
                                 form of ADS*)                          

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.

P D Tunnacliffe

Company Secretary

17 November 2009