Directors' Dealings

Diageo PLC
3 December 1999


Diageo  plc  (the 'Company') announces that  it  received
notification  on  3  December 1999 for  the  purposes  of
Section 329 of the Companies Act 1985 that the trustee of
the  Diageo  plc  QUEST  (the  'Trust')  has  transferred
1,593,453 of the Company's ordinary shares of 28  101/108
pence  ('Ordinary  Shares')  to  participants  exercising
options  granted  under the Company's UK  Savings-Related
Stock  Option Scheme and the Grand Metropolitan  Savings-
Related   Share  Option  Scheme  (the  'Schemes').    The
Ordinary Shares were transferred by Diageo QUEST Trustees
Limited  as  trustee  of  the  Trust.   The  Trust  is  a
discretionary trust for the benefit of employees  of  the
Company   and   its   subsidiaries  which   operates   in
conjunction  with the Schemes  and holds Ordinary  Shares
to satisfy existing options granted under the Schemes.

1. Executive     directors    who    are    potential
   beneficiaries of the Trust are:
   
   Sir Anthony Greener
   J M J Keenan
   D N Malamatinas
   J B McGrath
   N C Rose
   C A Storm
   P S Walsh
   
2. Transactions  notified  on  3  December  1999   in
   relation to the Trust.
   
    Date of         No. of Ordinary       Range of
  Transaction     Shares Transferred   Option Prices
                                        of Ordinary
                                           Shares
    29.11.99         429,243               £3.54
    30.11.99           7,473            £3.54-£4.645
    01.12.99       1,156,737               £3.59

The  total  holding of the Trust now amounts to 7,277,765
Ordinary Shares.