Transaction in Own Shares

Diageo PLC
21 December 2005


Diageo plc

21 December 2005

Diageo plc announces that it has today purchased through Goldman Sachs
International 300,000 ordinary shares at a price of 836.8703 pence per share.
The purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares.

Following the above purchase, Diageo plc holds 170,219,000 ordinary shares as
treasury shares.  The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares
held as treasury shares) is 2,880,413,361.


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