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 16 April
2010 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 12 April 2010, as follows:

Name of PDMR              Number of ADSs*                                    
                                                                             
G Ghostine                14                                                 
                                                                             
D Mahlan                  32                                                 
                                                                             
I Menezes                 54                                                 
                                                                             
R Millian                 20                                                 
                                                                             
T Proctor                 35                                                 
                                                                             
L Schwartz                40                                                 
                                                                             
G Williams                14                                                 

The ADSs were purchased on 12 April 2010 at a price of $71.77 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) have increased as follows:

Name of PDMR              Number of Ordinary Shares                          
                                                                             
G Ghostine                40,620 (of which 32,836 are held in the form of ADS
                          *)                                                 
                                                                             
I Menezes                 325,468 (of which 232,470 are held in the form of  
                          ADS*)                                              
                                                                             
G Williams                216,815 (of which 6,144 are held in the form of ADS
                          *)                                                 
                                                                             
                          Number of ADSs*                                    
                                                                             
D Mahlan                  4,046                                              
                                                                             
R Millian                 9,833                                              
                                                                             
T Proctor                 38,484                                             
                                                                             
L Schwartz                4,731                                              

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.

P D Tunnacliffe

Company Secretary

19 April 2010