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 all received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the
Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that:

 1. It received notification on 10 August 2012 of the following allocations of
    ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares")
    under the Diageo Share Incentive Plan (the "Plan"), namely:
   
(i) the following directors of the Company were allocated Ordinary Shares on 10
August 2012 under the Plan, by Diageo Share Ownership Trustees Limited (the
"Trustee"):

Name of Director              Number of Ordinary Shares               
                                                                      
D Mahlan                      11                                      
                                                                      
PS Walsh                      11                                      

(ii) the following Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR")
were allocated Ordinary Shares on 10 August 2012 under the Plan, by the
Trustee:

Name of PDMR                 Number of Ordinary Shares           
                                                                 
N Blazquez                   11                                  
                                                                 
D Gosnell                    11                                  
                                                                 
J Grover                     11                                  
                                                                 
A Morgan                     11                                  
                                                                 
G Williams                   11                                  
                                                                 
I Wright                     11                                  

The number of Ordinary Shares allocated comprises those purchased on behalf of
the employee using an amount which the employee has chosen to have deducted
from salary ("Sharepurchase") and those awarded to the employee by the Company
("Sharematch") on the basis of one Sharematch Ordinary Share for every two
Sharepurchase Ordinary Shares.

The Sharepurchase Ordinary Shares were purchased and the Sharematch Ordinary
Shares were awarded at a price per share of £17.12.

The Ordinary Shares are held by the Trustee and in the name of the Trustee.
Sharepurchase Ordinary Shares can normally be sold at any time. Sharematch
Ordinary Shares cannot normally be disposed of for a period of three years
after the award date.

 2. It received notification on 10 August 2012 from Dr FB Humer, a director of
    the Company, that he had purchased 484 Ordinary Shares on 10 August 2012
    under an arrangement with the Company, whereby he has agreed to use an
    amount of £8,000 each month, net of tax, from his director's fees to
    purchase Ordinary Shares. Dr Humer has agreed to retain the Ordinary Shares
    while he remains a director of the Company.
   
The Ordinary Shares were purchased at a price per share of £17.12.

As a result of the above transactions, interests of directors and PDMRs in the
Company's Ordinary Shares and American Depository Shares ("ADS")* (excluding
options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests as potential
beneficiaries of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts) are as follows:

Name of Director             Number of Ordinary Shares               
                                                                     
Dr FB Humer                  41,517                                  
                                                                     
D Mahlan                     94,900 (of which 94,534 are held as ADS)
                                                                     
PS Walsh                     651,602                                 
                                                                     
Name of PDMR                 Number of Ordinary Shares               
                                                                     
N Blazquez                   55,844                                  
                                                                     
D Gosnell                    81,513                                  
                                                                     
J Grover                     154,962                                 
                                                                     
A Morgan                     150,850                                 
                                                                     
G Williams                   173,960 (of which 6,424 are held as ADS)
                                                                     
I Wright                     36,412                                  
                                                                     

J Nicholls

Deputy Company Secretary

10 August 2012

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.