Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO:       Regulatory Information Service                                       
                                                                               
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RE:       PARAGRAPH 3.1.4 OF THE DISCLOSURE AND TRANSPARENCY RULES             

The notifications listed below were all received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the
Disclosure and Transparency Rules. Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that it
received notification on 24 April 2014 that:

 1. The following Directors and Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities
    ("PDMRs"), as participants in the dividend reinvestment programme connected
    with the US Employee Stock Purchase Plan (also known as the US Sharevalue
    Plan), received American Depository Shares ("ADS")* in respect of the
    Company's interim dividend paid on 10 April 2014, as follows:
   
 2. 
   
Name of Director           Number of ADSs

D Mahlan                        33

I Menezes                       43

Name of PDMR              Number of ADSs

G Ghostine                       9

J Kennedy                        4

S Saller                        17

L Schwartz                      47



The ADSs were purchased on 10 April 2014 at a price of $125.31 per ADS.

 2. David Gosnell, a PDMR, transferred 1,686 ordinary shares of 28 101/108
    pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") held in his own name to his
    spouse Mrs Susan Gosnell on 23 April 2014.
   
As a result of the above transactions, interests of directors and PDMRs in the
Company's Ordinary Shares and ADS (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 Director           Number of Ordinary Shares                
                                                                    
D Mahlan                   228,029 (of which 136,789 are held as    
                           ADS)                                     
                                                                    
I Menezes                  634,809 (of which 541,811 are held as    
                           ADS)                                     
                                                                    
Name of PDMR               Number of Ordinary Shares                
                                                                    
G Ghostine                 164,836 (of which 33,297 are held as ADS)
                                                                    
D Gosnell                  172,520                                  
                                                                    
J Kennedy                  38,726 (of which 34,130 are held as ADS) 
                                                                    
                           Number of ADS                            
                                                                    
S Saller                   11,911                                   
                                                                    
L Schwartz                 33,628                                   

J Nicholls

Deputy Company Secretary

24 April 2014

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.