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 today that
Andrew Fennell, a person discharging managerial responsibility, exercised
options on 20 September 2011 over ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each in
the Company ("Ordinary Shares") under the Company's Senior Executive Share
Option Plan ("SESOP") as set out below:

No. of Ordinary     Date of grant      Price per share   
Shares                                                   
                                                         
25,967              19 September 2006  £9.30             
                                                         
25,056              18 September 2007  £10.51            

Mr Fennell subsequently sold 49,747 Ordinary Shares on 21 October 2011, at a
price per share of £13.20. Mr Fennell retains the balance of 1,276 Ordinary
Shares.

As a result of the above transactions, the interests of Mr Fennell in the
Company's Ordinary Shares (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs
and interests as potential beneficiaries of the Company's Employee Benefit
Trusts) have increased to 6,574.

J Nicholls

Deputy Secretary

21 October 2011