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 on 12
December 2011 that Ivan Menezes, had on 6 December 2011, transferred 21,885
American Depository Shares in the Company ("ADSs")* held in a grantor retained
annuity trust ("GRAT") to his own name. Mr Menezes is the grantor and sole
trustee of the GRAT, and his two children are the beneficiaries.

Mr Menezes subsequently transferred 6,800 ADSs held in his GRAT to a trust
account, of which his spouse is a trustee, also for the benefit of his
children.

As a result of the above transaction the interests of Mr Menezes in ordinary
shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") and ADSs
(excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests as a
potential beneficiary of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts) remain at
429,653 (of which 336,656 are held as ADS).

J Nicholls

Deputy Company Secretary

12 December 2011

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.