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 received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the
Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that it received notification on 9 May
2013 that Nick Blazquez, a person discharging managerial responsibility
(`PDMR'), exercised options on 8 May 2013 over 65,126 ordinary shares of 28 101
/108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") granted under the Company's
Senior Executive Share Option Plan ("SESOP"). The options were granted on 17
September 2009 at an exercise price of £9.52 per Ordinary Share.

Of the shares arising, Mr Blazquez sold 64,426 Ordinary Shares at a price per
Ordinary Share of £19.81.

Separately, Mr Blazquez sold 1,250 Ordinary Shares held in his own name on 8
May 2013 at a price per Ordinary Share of £19.80.

As a result of the above transactions, Mr Blazquez's interests 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)
have increased to 72,425.

J Nicholls

Deputy Company Secretary

9 May 2013