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 it
received notification on 1 November 2012 that the following Directors and
Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMRs"), as participants in
the dividend reinvestment programme connected with the US Employee Stock
Purchase Plan (also known as the US Sharevalue Plan) (the "USESPP"), received
American Depository Shares ("ADS")* in respect of the Company's final dividend
paid on 26 October 2012, as follows:

Name of Director           Number of ADSs                                      
                                                                               
D Mahlan                   45                                                  
                                                                               
I Menezes                  52                                                  
                                                                               
Name of PDMR               Number of ADSs                                      
                                                                               
G Ghostine                 13                                                  
                                                                               
R Millian                  38                                                  
                                                                               
L Schwartz                 57                                                  
                                                                               
G Williams                 17                                                  

The ADSs were purchased on 26 October 2012 at a price of $114.26 per ADS.

As a result of the above transactions, interests of directors and PDMRs in the
Company's ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each ("Ordinary Shares") and 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                
                                                                    
D Mahlan                   120,599 (of which 120,035 are held as    
                           ADS)                                     
                                                                    
I Menezes                  509,940 (of which 416,942 are held as    
                           ADS)                                     
                                                                    
Name of PDMR               Number of Ordinary Shares                
                                                                    
G Ghostine                 102,550 (of which 33,177 are held as ADS)
                                                                    
G Williams                 217,988 (of which 6,493 are held as ADS) 
                                                                    
                           Number of ADS                            
                                                                    
R Millian                  19,798                                   
                                                                    
L Schwartz                 19,585                                   

J Nicholls

Deputy Company Secretary

2 November 2012

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.