Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO: Regulatory Information Service

PR Newswire

RE: PARAGRAPH 3.1.4 OF

THE DISCLOSURE RULES

Notification number 1. listed below is in respect of a single transaction of
which notification was received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the Disclosure Rules
and Section 324 of the Companies Act 1985.

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that:

1. it received notification on 19 February 2007, that Mr PS Walsh, a director,
had exercised options on 19 February 2007 over 125,000 Ordinary Shares of 28
101/108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") granted on 13 September
2000 at a price per share of £5.87 under the Company's Senior Executive Share
Option Plan. Mr Walsh subsequently sold 118,750 Ordinary Shares, on 19 February
2007, at a price per share of £10.475.

Mr Walsh retains beneficial ownership of the balance of 6,250 Ordinary Shares.

As a result of the above, Mr Walsh's interests 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 622,261.

2. it received notification on 20 February 2007 from Appleby Trust (Jersey)
Limited, as trustee of the Diageo Employee Benefit Trust (the "Employee Benefit
Trust") that they had transferred 125,000 Ordinary Shares to a beneficiary of
the Employee Benefit Trust following an exercise of options under the Company's
Senior Executive Share Option Plan on 19 February 2007.

As a result of this transaction the total holding of the Employee Benefit Trust
amounts to 5,288,657 shares.

Directors who are potential beneficiaries of the Employee Benefit Trust are PS
Walsh and NC Rose.

20 February 2007