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:

1) it received notification today 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), received American Depository
Shares ("ADS") in respect of the Company's final dividend paid on 23 October
2009, as follows:

Name of PDMR                 Number of ADSs*                                 
                                                                             
D Mahlan                     51                                              
                                                                             
L Schwartz                   64                                              

The ADSs were purchased on 23 October 2009 at a price of $63.27 per ADS.

2) it received notification on 5 November 2009 that David Gosnell, a PDMR,
exercised options on 6 November 2009 over 14,595 Company's ordinary shares of
28 101/108 pence ("Ordinary Shares") granted on 11 March 2003 at a price per
share of £6.15 under the Company's Senior Executive Share Option Plan ("SESOP")
and over 54,167 Ordinary Shares granted on 10 October 2003 at a price per share
of £6.49 under the SESOP.

Mr Gosnell subsequently sold 68,000 Ordinary Shares on 6 November 2009, at a
price per share of £10.00. Mr Gosnell retains the balance of 762 Ordinary
Shares.

As a result of the above transactions, the interests of 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                       
                                                                             
D Gosnell                    60,647                                          
                                                                             
Name of PDMR                 Number of ADSs*                                 
                                                                             
D Mahlan                     3,577                                           
                                                                             
L Schwartz                   4,199                                           

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.

P D Tunnacliffe

Company Secretary

6 November 2009