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 1 August
2005, for the purposes of Section 324 of the Companies Act 1985, that Mourant &
Co Trustees Limited ('Mourant'), as trustee of the Diageo Employee Benefit
Trust (the 'Trust'), had transferred 5,855 ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence
of the Company ('Ordinary Shares') to a beneficiary of the Trust on 1 August
2005, following the vesting of an award under the Company's Total Shareholder
Return plan, approved by shareholders on 11 August 1998.

As a result of the above transaction the total holding of the Trust amounts to
6,273,210 Ordinary Shares.

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

2 August 2005