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 23
February 2012 that David Gosnell, a person discharging managerial
responsibilities, exercised an option on 22 February 2012 over 51,695 ordinary
shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") granted on
18 October 2007 at a price per share of £10.51 under the Company's Senior
Executive Share Option Plan.

Mr Gosnell subsequently sold 50,000 Ordinary Shares on 22 February 2012, at a
price per share of £15.00. Mr Gosnell retains the balance of 1,695 Ordinary
Shares which he subsequently transferred to his spouse Mrs Susan Gosnell.

As a result of the above transaction the interests of Mr Gosnell 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) has increased to 81,442.

J Nicholls

Deputy Company Secretary

23 February 2012