Director Shareholding

Diageo PLC
25 April 2002


TO:         REGULATORY NEWS SERVICE
            THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE

RE:         CHAPTER 16 PARAGRAPH 13
            CONTINUING OBLIGATIONS


Diageo plc (the 'Company') announces that the directors mentioned below are
participants in the Diageo Dividend Reinvestment Plan and that ordinary shares
of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company ('Ordinary Shares') were purchased on 22
April 2002 (with a settlement date of 25 April 2002) at a price of £9.236 in
respect of the interim ordinary dividend paid on 22 April 2002:

Name of Director                  No. of Ordinary Shares

Lord Blyth                        110
R F Chase                         109
J K Oates                         27
N C Rose                          792


As a result of these transactions, the respective directors' interests in
Ordinary Shares (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and also
share interests as potential beneficiaries of the Diageo Employee Benefit Trust,
the Diageo plc QUEST and the Grand Metropolitan No.2 Employee Share Trust) have
increased to the following:

Name of Director                  No. of Ordinary Shares

Lord Blyth                        13,745
R F Chase                         10,986
J K Oates                         3,116
N C Rose                          88,264



25 April 2002


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