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 13 March
2006 from Mr Jim Grover, a Person Discharging Managerial Responsibilities
('PDMR'), that he had exercised options on 13 March 2006 over 89,656 Ordinary
Shares of 28 101/108 pence in the Company ('Ordinary Shares') granted on 12
September 2001 at a price per Ordinary Share of £6.87 under the Company`s
Senior Executive Share Option Plan and sold 87,656 Ordinary Shares at a price
of £9.127 per Ordinary Share.

Mr Grover will retain beneficial ownership of the balance of 2,000 Ordinary
Shares.

As a result of the above, Mr Grover'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) has increased
to 151,955.

14 March 2006