Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO:       Regulatory Information Service                                       
                                                                               
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RE:       PARAGRAPH 3.1.4 OF THE DISCLOSURE AND TRANSPARENCY RULES             

The notifications listed below were all received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the
Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces:

 1. that it received notification on 9 December that the following Director
    Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMRs"), as participants
    in the dividend reinvestment programme connected with the US Employee Stock
    Purchase Plan (also known as the US Sharevalue Plan (the "USESPP")),
    received American Depository Shares ("ADS")* in respect of the Company's
    final dividend paid on 24 October 2011, as follows:
   
Name of Director

Number of ADSs               
                             
D Mahlan       55            
                             
Name of PDMR   Number of ADSs
                             
G Ghostine     22            
                             
I Menezes      93            
                             
R Millian      40            
                             
T Proctor      56            
                             
L Schwartz     63            
                             
G Williams     21            

The ADSs were purchased on 28 October 2011 at a price of $84.58 per ADS.

 2. that it received notification on 9 December that the following PDMRs were
    granted an estimated number of options to subscribe for ADS under the
    USESPP to the following PDMRs:
   
Name of PDMR    Grant Date        Estimated No Grant      Exercisable          
                                  of ADS       price per                       
                                  granted      ADS                             
                                                                               
I Menezes       1 October 2011    305          $65.37     31 December 2012     
                                                                               
R Millian       1 October 2011    305          $65.37     31 December 2012     
                                                                               
T Proctor       1 October 2011    305          $65.37     31 December 2012     
                                                                               
L Schwartz      1 October 2011    305          $65.37     31 December 2012     

 3. that it received notification on 12 December 2011 of the following
    allocations of ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company
    ("Ordinary Shares") under the Diageo Share Incentive Plan (the "Plan"),
    namely:
   
 i. the following directors of the Company were allocated Ordinary Shares on 12
   
December 2011 under the Plan, by Diageo Share Ownership Trustees

Limited (the "Trustee"):

Name of Director                  Number of Ordinary Shares             
                                                                        
PS Walsh                          14                                    
                                                                        
D Mahlan                          14                                    

ii. the following PDMRs were allocated Ordinary Shares on 12 December 2011
    under the Plan, by the Trustee:
   
Name of PDMR                        Number of Ordinary Shares          
                                                                       
N Blazquez                          14                                 
                                                                       
D Gosnell                           14                                 
                                                                       
J Grover                            14                                 
                                                                       
A Morgan                            14                                 
                                                                       
G Williams                          14                                 
                                                                       
I Wright                            14                                 
                                                                       

The number of Ordinary Shares allocated comprises those purchased on behalf of
the employee using an amount which the employee has chosen to have deducted
from salary ("Sharepurchase") and those awarded to the employee by the Company
("Sharematch") on the basis of one Sharematch Ordinary Share for every two
Sharepurchase Ordinary Shares.

The Sharepurchase Ordinary Shares were purchased and the Sharematch Ordinary
Shares were awarded at a price per share of £13.57.

The Ordinary Shares are held by the Trustee and in the name of the Trustee.
Sharepurchase Ordinary Shares can normally be sold at any time. Sharematch
Ordinary Shares cannot normally be disposed of for a period of three years
after the award date.

 4. It received notification on 12 December 2011 from Dr FB Humer, a director
    of the Company, that he had purchased 611 Ordinary Shares on 12 December
    2011 under an arrangement with the Company, whereby he has agreed to use an
    amount of £8,000 each month, net of tax, from his director's fees to
    purchase Ordinary Shares. Dr Humer has agreed to retain the Ordinary Shares
    while he remains a director of the Company.
   
The Ordinary Shares were purchased at a price per share of £13.57.

As a result of the above transactions, interests of directors and PDMRs in the
Company's Ordinary Shares and ADS (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 Director              Number of Ordinary Shares                
                                                                       
Dr FB Humer                   36,886                                   
                                                                       
PS Walsh                      691,506                                  
                                                                       
D Mahlan                      94,676 (of which 94,407 are held as ADS) 
                                                                       
Name of PDMR                  Number of Ordinary Shares                
                                                                       
N Blazquez                    55,748                                   
                                                                       
G Ghostine                    62,625 (of which 33,075 are held as ADS) 
                                                                       
D Gosnell                     79,722                                   
                                                                       
J Grover                      154,866                                  
                                                                       
I Menezes                     429,653 (of which 336,656 are held as    
                              ADS)                                     
R Millian                                                              
                              10,612                                   
                                                                       
A Morgan                      150,754                                  
                                                                       
T Proctor                     29,319                                   
                                                                       
L Schwartz                    9,033                                    
                                                                       
G Williams                    198,816 (of which 6,376 are held as ADS) 
                                                                       
I Wright                      31,841                                   
                                                                       

J Nicholls

Deputy Company Secretary

12 December 2011

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.