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 26 April
2013 that Randy Millian, a person discharging managerial responsibility
("PDMR"), exercised options on 25 April 2013 over American Depository Shares in
the Company ("ADS")* granted under the Company's Senior Executive Share Option
Plan ("SESOP") as set out below:

No. of ADSs        Date of grant         Price per ADS   
                                                         
19,406             19 September 2006     $70.38          
                                                         
17,453             18 September 2007     $84.53          
                                                         
13,775             27 October 2008       $56.84          
                                                         
21,384             17 September 2009     $63.13          

Of the shares arising, Mr Millian sold 71,296 ADSs at an average price per ADS
of $119.94 and retained the balance of 722 ADSs. As a result of the above
transactions, Mr Millian's interests in the Company's ADS (excluding options,
awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests as a potential beneficiary of
the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts) have increased to 21,861.

J Nicholls

Deputy Company Secretary

26 April 2013

*1 ADS is equal to 4 ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company
("Ordinary Shares")