Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO: Regulatory Information Service

PR Newswire

RE: Paragraph 3.1.4 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules

The notification below were received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the Disclosure
and Transparency Rules.

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that it received notification on 18 April
2008 that the following Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities
("PDMR"), as participants in the dividend reinvestment programme connected with
the Company's US Employee Stock Purchase Plan (also known as the US Sharevalue
Plan) (the "Plan"), received American Depository Shares ("ADS") in respect of
the Company's interim dividend paid on 11 April 2008, as follows:

Name of PDMR                                Number of ADSs                   
                                                                             
I Menezes                                   47                               
                                                                             
T Proctor                                   29                               
                                                                             
G Williams                                  13                               

The ADSs were purchased on 11 April 2008 at a price of $84.35 per ADS.

As a result of the above transactions, the interests of directors and PDMRs in
the Company's Ordinary Shares (excluding options, awards under the Company's
LTIPs and interests as potential beneficiaries of the Company's Employee
Benefit Trusts) are as follows:

Name of PDMR                          Number of Ordinary Shares                
                                                                               
I Menezes                             294,878*                                 
                                                                               
G Williams                            228,657**                                
                                                                               
                                      Number of ADSs                           
                                                                               
T Proctor                             33,650                                   
                                                                               

* Of which 201,880 are held in the form of ADSs.

** Of which 5,812 are held in the form of ADSs and which includes shares owned
by a connected person now sharing the same household.

(1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.)

18 April 2008