Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO:      Regulatory Information Service                                    
                                                                           
         PR Newswire                                                       
                                                                           
RE:      Paragraph 3.1.4 of the Disclosure and Transparency 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 6
February 2015 that Ivan Menezes, a director, had on 6 February 2015 purchased,
on the New York Stock Exchange, 8,600 American Depository Shares in the Company
("ADSs")* at a price per ADS of US$116.53.

As a result of the above transaction, the interests of Mr Menezes in the
ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares")
(excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests as a
potential beneficiary of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts) have increased
to 749,517 (of which 656,519 are held as ADS).

J Fahey

Senior Company Secretarial Assistant

09 February 2015

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.