Director/PDMR Shareholding

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

The notification listed below was received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the
Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that it received notification today that
Paul Walsh, a director, exercised an option on 1 September 2011 over 20,553
ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares")
granted on 11 October 2002 at a price per share of £7.59 under the Company's
Senior Executive Share Option Plan ("SESOP").

Mr Walsh subsequently sold 16,726 Ordinary Shares on 1 September 2011, at a
price per share of £12.47. Mr Walsh retains the balance of 3,827 Ordinary
Shares.

As a result of the above transactions, the interests of Mr Walsh 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) have increased to 671,204.

J Nicholls

Deputy Secretary

2 September 2011