Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO: Regulatory Information Service

PR Newswire

RE: PARAGRAPH 3.1.4 OF

THE DISCLOSURE RULES

The notification listed below regarding Mr NC Rose is in respect of a single
transaction of which notification was received under paragraph 3.1.2 of the
Disclosure Rules and Section 324 of the Companies Act 1985.

Diageo plc (the 'Company') announces that:

1. Mr NC Rose, a director, notified the Company on 5 December 2005 that:

a. on 5 December 2005, he exercised options over 150,000 Ordinary Shares of 28
101/108 pence each in the Company ('Ordinary Shares') granted on 12 September
2001 at a price per share of £6.87 under the Company's Senior Executive Share
Option Plan; and

b. on 5 December 2005, he sold 145,000 Ordinary Shares at a price per share of
£8.61.

Mr Rose will retain beneficial ownership of the balance of 5,000 Ordinary
Shares.

As a result of the above, Mr Rose'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) is 254,593.

2. it received notification on 6 December 2005 from Bailhache Labesse Trustees
Limited, as trustee of the Diageo Employee Benefit Trust ('the Employee Benefit
Trust') that they had transferred 150,000 Ordinary Shares to a beneficiary of
the Employee Benefit Trust following an exercise of options under the Company's
Senior Executive Share Option Plan on 5 December 2005.

As a result of this transaction the total holding of the Employee Benefit Trust
amounts to 7,112,748 shares.

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

6 December 2005