Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO: Regulatory Information Service

PR Newswire

RE: PARAGRAPH 3.1.4 OF

THE DISCLOSURE 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 11
September 2014 that the following Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility
("PDMR") named below were granted options to subscribe for ordinary shares of
28 101/108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") under the Company's UK
Sharesave Plan 2010 on 11 September 2014, namely:

Name of PDMR    No. of Ordinary       Dates Option Exercisable between         
                Shares                                                         
                                                                               
N Blazquez      215                   01 December 2019 to 31 May 2020          
                                                                               
D Cutter        1,077                 01 December 2019 to 31 May 2020          
                                                                               
A Fennell       640                   01 December 2017 to 31 May 2018          
                                                                               
C Lambkin       640                   01 December 2017 to 31 May 2018          
                                                                               
A Manz          563                   01 December 2017 to 31 May 2018          
                                                                               
S Moriarty      640                   01 December 2017 to 31 May 2018          
                                                                               
L Wood          646                   01 December 2017 to 31 May 2020          

Each option has been granted at a price of £14.06 per Ordinary Share.

As a result of the above transactions the interests of PDMRs in the Company's
Ordinary Shares and ADSs (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs
and interests as potential beneficiaries of the Company's Employee Benefit
Trusts) are unchanged.

J Nicholls

Deputy Company Secretary

11 September 2014