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 19 April
2011 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 lieu of the Company's
interim dividend paid on 11 April 2011, as follows:

Name of PDMR              Number of ADSs                                     
                                                                             
G Ghostine                15                                                 
                                                                             
D Mahlan                  37                                                 
                                                                             
I Menezes                 64                                                 
                                                                             
R Millian                 27                                                 
                                                                             
T Proctor                 38                                                 
                                                                             
L Schwartz                43                                                 
                                                                             
G Williams                15                                                 

The ADSs were purchased on 11 April 2010 at a price of $77.69 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") and ADSs (excluding
options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests as potential
beneficiaries of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts) have increased as
follows:

Name of PDMR              Number of Ordinary Shares                          
                                                                             
G Ghostine                51,655 (of which 32,987 are held in the form of    
                          ADS)                                               
                                                                             
I Menezes                 358,496 (of which 265,498 are held in the form of  
                          ADS)                                               
                                                                             
G Williams                183,836 (of which 6,288 are held in the form of    
                          ADS)                                               
                                                                             
                          Number of ADSs                                     
                                                                             
D Mahlan                  8,901                                              
                                                                             
R Millian                 10,444                                             
                                                                             
T Proctor                 38,580                                             
                                                                             
L Schwartz                6,404                                              

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.

J Nicholls

Company Secretary

20 April 2011