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 today that
Mr PS Walsh, a director, had sold 39,148 Ordinary Shares of 28 101/108 pence
each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") on 29 August 2008, at a price per share
of £10.01.

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) is now 644,225.

29 August 2008