Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO:      Regulatory Information Service                                    
                                                                           
         PR Newswire                                                       
                                                                           
RE:      Paragraph 3.1.4 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules          

The notifications listed below were received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the
Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that it received notification on 1
December 2011 that the following person discharging managerial responsibilities
("PDMR") had today received ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence in the Company
("Ordinary Shares") upon the exercise of options under the Diageo UK Sharesave
Scheme 2000, as follows:

Name of PDMR        Grant Date           Option Price   No. of Ordinary Shares 
                                                                               
G Williams          13 October 2006      £7.45          2,197                  

As a result of this transaction, the interests of Mr Williams in the Company's
Ordinary Shares and American Depository Shares ("ADS")* (excluding options,
awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests as a potential beneficiary of
the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts) have increased to 198,716 (of which
6,288 are held as ADS).

J Nicholls

Deputy Company Secretary

1 December 2011

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.