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 2
December 2013 that the following persons discharging managerial
responsibilities ("PDMR") had received ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence in
the Company ("Ordinary Shares") on 2 December 2013 upon the exercise of options
as detailed below:

Name of  Grant     Option No. of   Shareplan                                    
PDMR     Date      Price  Ordinary                                              
                          Shares                                                
                                                                                
D        1         £8.28  2,022    Diageo UK Sharesave                          
Gosnell  December                  Scheme 2010                                  
         2008      £9.41  114                                                   
A Manz                             Diageo UK Sharesave                          
         1                         Scheme 2000                                  
         December                                                               
         2010                                                                   

As a result of these transaction, the interests of PDMRs 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)
are as follows:

Name of PDMR                  Number of Ordinary Shares            
                                                                   
D Gosnell                     154,007                              
                                                                   
A Manz                        21,209                               

J Nicholls

Deputy Company Secretary

3 December 2013