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 today John Pollaers, a Person
Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR") was granted 6,318 options over
the Company's ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence ("Ordinary Shares") under the
Company's Senior Executive Share Option Plan (the "SESOP"), approved by
shareholders on 9 November 1999.

Each option under the SESOP was granted at a price of £9.90 per Ordinary Share
and is exercisable between 13 March 2010 and 12 March 2017, subject to the
satisfaction of performance criteria.

In addition, Mr Pollaers acquired an interest in 55,064 Ordinary Shares in the
form of an award under the Company's Long Term Incentive Plan, now called the
Total Shareholder Return Plan (the "TSR Plan"), approved by shareholders on 11
August 1998. 

The number shown above is the maximum number of Ordinary Shares which could be
transferred upon achieving top performance (1st or 2nd position) by reference
to Diageo's seventeen company peer group used in the performance test for the
2006 awards under the TSR Plan. At position 9 within the TSR peer group 23.3%
of the above shares would be transferred.

The performance period commenced on 1 July 2006 and, subject to the rules of
the TSR Plan and depending on Diageo's TSR performance relative to its peer
groups, the award will be released in September 2009.

13 March 2007