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 19 November 2014 that Mr Fennell, a PDMR, exercised
options on 19 November 2014 over the company's ordinary shares of 28 101/108
pence each ("Ordinary Shares") under the Company's Senior Executive Share
Option Plan ("SESOP") as set out below:

No. of Ordinary    Date of grant         Price per share 
Shares                                                   
                                                         
82,754             20 September 2010     £10.80          
                                                         
57,629             22 September 2011     £12.32          

Mr Fennell subsequently sold 136,873 Ordinary Shares on 19 November 2014, at a
price per share of £18.92. Mr Fennell retains the balance of 3,510 Ordinary
Shares.

As a result of the above transaction the interests of Mr Fennell in the
Company's Ordinary Shares (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs
and interests as a potential beneficiary of the Company's Employee Benefit
Trusts) has increased to 92,944.

J Fahey
Senior Company Secretarial Assistant

20 November 2014