Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO: Regulatory Information Service

PR Newswire

RE: PARAGRAPH 3.1.4 OF

THE DISCLOSURE RULES

The notifications listed below regarding Mr Ivan Menezes and Mr Gareth Williams
are in respect of a single transaction by each, of which notification was
received under paragraph 3.1.2 of the Disclosure Rules.

Diageo plc (the 'Company') announces that:

1. Mr Ivan Menezes, a Person Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ('PDMR'),
notified the Company today that on 2 March 2006:

a) he exercised options over 40,484 Ordinary Shares of 28 101/108 pence in the
Company ('Ordinary Shares') granted on 18 April 1997 at a price per Ordinary
Share of £4.94 under the Company`s Senior Executive Share Option Plan and sold
40,484 Ordinary shares at a price of £8.845 per Ordinary Share; and

b) he exercised options over 45,396 American Depository Shares ('ADS')* granted
on 12 September 2001 at a price per ADS of $41.20 under the Company `s Senior
Executive Share Option Plan and sold 45,396 ADSs at a price of $62.33 per ADS.

As a result of the above, Mr Menezes's interest in Ordinary Shares in the
Company (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interest as a
potential beneficiary of the Company's employee benefit trusts) is 240,742, of
which 36,936 are held in the form of ADS*.

2. Mr Gareth Williams, a PDMR, notified the Company on 2 March 2006 that, on 1
December 2005, he had received 3,341 Ordinary Shares upon the exercise of
options granted on 8 November 2000 at a price per Ordinary Share of £5.05 under
the Diageo UK Sharesave Scheme 2000.

As a result of the above, Mr Williams's interest in Ordinary Shares in the
Company remains the same and his holding of Ordinary Shares (excluding options,
awards under the Company's LTIPs and interest as a potential beneficiary of the
Company's employee benefit trusts) is 186,185, of which 5,423 are held in the
form of ADS*.

(*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.)

3 March 2006