Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO:      Regulatory Information Service                                    
                                                                           
         PR Newswire                                                       
                                                                           
RE:      Paragraph 3.1.4 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules          

The notification listed 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
Paul Walsh, a director, sold 75,000 ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each in
the Company ("Ordinary Shares") today at a price per share of £11.02.

As a result of the above transaction the interests of Mr Walsh 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 653,741.

John Nicholls

Deputy Secretary

27 September 2010