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.

Diageo plc (the 'Company') announces that it received notification on 8 March
2006 from Mr Stuart Fletcher, a Person Discharging Managerial Responsibilities
('PDMR'), that he had exercised options on 8 March 2006 over 20,647 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 20,647 Ordinary Shares at a price of £8.92
per Ordinary Share.

As a result of the above, Mr Fletcher'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 112,413.

9 March 2006