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 under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the
Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that it received notification on 25
September 2013 that Larry Schwartz, a person discharging managerial
responsibilities ("PDMR"), exercised options on 24 September 2013 over American
Depository Shares in the Company ("ADS")* granted under the Company's Senior
Executive Share Option Plan as set out below:

No. of ADSs          Date of grant        Price per ADS     
                                                            
21,613               20 September 2010    $67.84            

Mr Schwartz subsequently sold 21,396 ADSs on 24 September 2013 at a price per
ADS of $130.11. As a result of the above transactions, Mr Schwartz's interests
in the Company's ADSs (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and
interests as a potential beneficiary of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts)
have increased to 33,137.

J Nicholls

Deputy Company Secretary

25 September 2013

*1 ADS is equal to 4 Ordinary Shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company