Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO:      Regulatory Information Service                                    
                                                                           
         PR Newswire                                                       
                                                                           
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 on 3 January
2012 that Ivan Menezes, had on 30 December 2011, transferred 17,406 American
Depository Shares in the Company ("ADSs")* from his own holding to the Shibani
M Menezes 2011 Irrevocable Family Trust (Shibani Menezes being Mr Menezes's
spouse).

As a result of the above transaction the interests of Mr Menezes in ordinary
shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") and ADSs
(excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests as a
potential beneficiary of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts) remain at
429,653 (of which 336,656 are held as ADS).

J Nicholls

Deputy Company Secretary

4 January 2012

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.