Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO:      Regulatory Information Service                                    
                                                                           
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RE:      Paragraph 3.1.4 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules          

The notification listed below was received on 21 September 2011, under
Paragraph 3.1.2 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that it received notification that on 21
September 2011, Paul Walsh, a director, exercised 150,000 options over 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 20 September 2005 at an exercise price of £8.15 per share.

Mr Walsh subsequently sold 145,000 Ordinary Shares on 21 October 2011, at a
price per share of £13.35. He retains the balance of 5,000 Ordinary Shares.

As a result of the above transactions, the interests of Mr Walsh 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 676,477.

J Nicholls

Deputy Secretary

24 October 2011