Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO:      Regulatory Information Service                                        
                                                                               
         PR Newswire                                                           
                                                                               
RE:      PARAGRAPH 3.1.4 OF                                                    
                                                                               
         THE DISCLOSURE RULES                                                  

The notification 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 it received notification on 1 March
2006 from Laurence Danon, a director of the Company, that she had purchased
2,000 ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence in the Company ('Ordinary Shares') on
1 March 2006.

The Ordinary Shares were purchased at a price per share of £8.7595.

As a result of this purchase, Ms Danon's interest in Ordinary Shares is 2,000.

2 March 2006