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 today that
the following Director and Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities
("PDMRs") had on 6 September 2010 transferred the below listed ordinary shares
of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") held in their own
names to their respective spouses:

Name of Director   Name of Spouse      Number of Ordinary Shares transferred 
                                       to spouse                             
                                                                             
Nick Rose          Mrs Kay Rose        250,000                               
                                                                             
Name of PDMR                           Number of Ordinary Shares transferred 
                                       to spouse                             
                                                                             
Nick Blazquez      Mrs Alison Blazquez 35,000                                
                                                                             
David Gosnell      Mrs Susan Gosnell   169                                   
                                                                             
Gareth Williams    Mrs Isobel Williams 140,000                               

The interests of the director and 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 unchanged as a
result of the above transactions.

John Nicholls

Deputy Secretary

6 September 2010