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
Nicholas Blazquez, a Person Discharging Managerial Responsibility, sold 5,440
ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares")
today at a price per share of £12.51.

As a result of the above transaction the interests of Mr Blazquez 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) is 50,463.

John Nicholls

Deputy Secretary

21 September 2011