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 22 May
2014 that:

 1. Andrew Morgan, a person discharging managerial responsibilities ("PDMR"),
    exercised options on 16 May 2014 over ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence
    each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") as set out below:
   
No. of Ordinary      Date of grant        Price per Ordinary
Shares                                    Share             
                                                            
115,222              20 September 2010    £10.80            

Of the shares arising, Mr Morgan sold 114,070 at a price per Ordinary Share of
£19.48. Mr Morgan retains the balance of 1,152 Ordinary Shares.

 2. Larry Schwartz, a PDMR, sold, on 20 May 2014, 7,794 American Depository
    Shares ("ADS")* in the Company at a price per ADS of $128.83.
   
As a result of the above transactions, the interests of the 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 PDMR              Number of Ordinary Shares                    
                                                                       
A Morgan                  163,582                                      
                                                                       
                          Number of ADS                                
                                                                       
L Schwartz                25,834                                       

Victoria Cooper

Senior Company Secretarial Assistant

22 May 2014

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares