Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO:      Regulatory Information Service                                      
                                                                             
         PR Newswire                                                         
                                                                             
RE:      PARAGRAPH 3.1.4 OF                                                  
                                                                             
         THE DISCLOSURE RULES                                                

Diageo plc (the 'Company') announces that it received notification on 23
November 2005, for the purposes of Section 324 of the Companies Act 1985, that
Bailhache Labesse Trustees Limited, as trustee of the Diageo Employee Benefit
Trust ('the Employee Benefit Trust') had purchased 3,341 Ordinary Shares of 28
101/108 pence each in the Company ('Ordinary Shares') on 23 November 2005 at an
average price of £8.4525 per Ordinary Share.

As a result of this transaction the total holding of the Employee Benefit Trust
amounts to 7,266,089 Ordinary Shares.

Directors of the Company who are potential beneficiaries of the Employee
Benefit Trust are PS Walsh and NC Rose.

24 November 2005