Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO:      Regulatory Information Service                                    
                                                                           
         PR Newswire                                                       
                                                                           
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 11
December 2012 that John Kennedy, a person discharging managerial responsibility
("PDMR") sold American Depository Shares in the Company ("ADS")* as set out
below:

Number of ADSs             Date sold                  Price per ADS            
                                                                               
1,587                      27 November 2012           $119.57                  
                                                                               
776                        28 November 2012           $119.77                  

As a result of the above transactions, Mr Kennedy's interests in the Company's
Ordinary Shares and ADSs (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs
and interests as potential beneficiaries of the Company's Employee Benefit
Trusts) are now 23,172 (of which 18,576 are held as ADSs).

P Tunnacliffe

Company Secretary

12 December 2012

*1 ADS is equal to 4 Ordinary Shares