Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO:      Regulatory Information Service                                    
                                                                           
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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 30
December 2011 that the following person discharging managerial responsibilities
("PDMR") had received ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence in the Company
("Ordinary Shares") on 19 December 2011 upon the exercise of an option under
the Diageo UK Sharesave Scheme 2000, as follows:

Name of PDMR        Grant Date           Option Price   No. of Ordinary Shares 
                                                                               
I Wright            13 October 2006      £7.45          439                    

As a result of this transaction, the interests of Mr Wright in the Company's
Ordinary Shares (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and
interests as a potential beneficiary of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts)
have increased to 32,280.

J Nicholls

Deputy Company Secretary

3 January 2012