Holding(s) in Company

TO:     Regulatory Information Service                                   
                                                                         
        PR Newswire                                                      
                                                                         
RE:     PARAGRAPH 9.6.7 OF                                               
                                                                         
        THE LISTING RULES                                                
                                                                         


Diageo plc (the 'Company') announces that it received notification on 23
September 2005 for the purposes of Sections 198 to 208 of the Companies Act
1985, from Barclays PLC ('Barclays') that as at 21 September 2005 Barclays had,
through its group legal entities, increased its interest in the Company's
ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence ('Ordinary Shares') to 88,864,188 Ordinary
Shares, representing 3.02 per cent. of the issued share capital. The issued
share capital of the Company as at 21 September 2005 was 2,943,855,400
excluding 106,574,000 Ordinary Shares held as Treasury Shares.

26 September 2005