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
the following Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR"), as
participants in the Company's US Employee Stock Purchase Plan (also known as
the US Sharevalue Plan), purchased American Depository Shares in the Company
("ADSs") on 31 December 2009 at a price of $59.38 per ADS, as follows:

Name of PDMR                                Number of ADSs*                  
                                                                             
D Mahlan                                    336.81                           
                                                                             
I Menezes                                   336.81                           
                                                                             
JR Millian                                  84.20                            
                                                                             
T Proctor                                   336.81                           
                                                                             
L Schwartz                                  336.81                           

As a result of the above transactions, the interests of the PDMRs in the
Company's Ordinary Shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company ("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                                   325,251 (of which 232,253 are    
                                            held in the form of ADS)         
                                                                             
                                            Number of ADSs*                  
                                                                             
D Mahlan                                    4,014                            
                                                                             
JR Millian                                  9,813                            
                                                                             
T Proctor                                   38,449                           
                                                                             
L Schwartz                                  4,691                            

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.

Paul Tunnacliffe

Company Secretary

8 February 2010