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 1
December 2014 that the following persons discharging managerial
responsibilities ("PDMR") received ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence in the
Company ("Ordinary Shares") on 1 December 2014 upon the exercise of options as
detailed below:

Name of  Grant     Option No. of   Shareplan                                    
PDMR     Date      Price  Ordinary                                              
                          Shares                                                
                                                                                
A        1         £7.62  816      Diageo UK Sharesave                          
Fennell  December                  Scheme 2000                                  
         2009      £9.60  825                                                   
A Manz                             Diageo UK Sharesave                          
         1                         Scheme 2010                                  
         December                                                               
         2011                                                                   

As a result of these transactions, 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)
have increased as follows:

Name of PDMR                  Number of Ordinary Shares            
                                                                   
A Fennell                     93,760                               
                                                                   
A Manz                        22,201                               

J Fahey
Senior Company Secretarial Assistant
2 December 2014