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 25
September 2007, that Mr PS Walsh, a director, had exercised the following
options over Ordinary Shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary
Shares") under the Company's Senior Executive Share Option Plan, on 25
September 2007:

Grant Date               No of Ordinary Shares Grant price per        
                         granted                                      
                                               Ordinary Share         
                                                                      
12 September 2001        69,513                £6.87                  
                                                                      
11 March 2003            30,487                £6.15                  

Mr Walsh subsequently sold 95,000 Ordinary Shares, on 25 September 2007, at a
price per share of £10.82.

Mr Walsh retains beneficial ownership of the balance of 5,000 Ordinary Shares.

As a result of the above, Mr Walsh'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 643,172.

26 September 2007