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
Nick Blazquez, a person discharging managerial responsibility, exercised
options on 8 November 2011 over ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the
Company ("Ordinary Shares") under the Company's Senior Executive Share Option
Plan ("SESOP") as set out below:

No. of Ordinary     Date of grant      Price per share   
Shares                                                   
                                                         
45,282              19 September 2006  £9.30             
                                                         
52,090              18 September 2007  £10.51            
                                                         
41,002              27 October 2008    £8.77             

Mr Blazquez subsequently sold 133,374 Ordinary Shares on 8 November 2011, at a
price per share of £13.21. The balance of 5,000 Ordinary Shares have been
transferred from his own name to his spouse, Mrs Alison Blazquez.

As a result of the above transactions, the interests of Mr Blazquez 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) have increased to 55,719.

J Nicholls

Deputy Secretary

9 November 2011