Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO: Regulatory Information Service

PR Newswire

RE: Paragraph 3.1.4 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules

The notification below was received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the Disclosure and
Transparency Rules.

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that it received notification on 19
September 2007, that Mr RM Malcolm, a Person Discharging Managerial
Responsibilities, had exercised options on 18 September 2007 over American
Depositary Shares ("ADS") in the Company under the Company's Senior Executive
Share Option Plan, as follows:

                  Grant Date          No of ADSs granted  Grant price per ADS
                                                                             
           13 September 2000                         271               $33.27
                                                                             
           12 September 2001                      38,228               $41.20
                                                                             
           11 September 2002                      35,621               $47.31

Mr Malcolm subsequently sold 72,270 ADSs, on 18 September 2007, at a price per
ADS of $85.64.

Mr Malcolm retains beneficial ownership of the balance of 1,850 ADSs.

As a result of the above, Mr Malcolm's interests in the Company's Ordinary
Shares (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests as a
potential beneficiary of the Company's employee benefit trusts) has increased
to 21,850.

1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares of 28 101/108 pence in the
Company.

20 September 2007