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 20
January 2015 that, in connection with the Company's US Employee Stock Purchase
Plan (also known as the US Sharevalue Plan) (the "USESPP"), the following
Director and Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMRs")
purchased, on 20 January 2015, American Depositary Shares ("ADS")* as
participants in the USESPP at a price of $108.32 per ADS as follows:

Name of Director       Number of ADSs       
I Menezes              30.77                
                                            
Name of PDMR           Number of ADSs       
A Gavazzi              184.64               
S Saller               184.64               
L Schwartz             184.64               

As a result of these transactions, the interests of the Director and PDMRs in
the Company's ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each ("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  No. of Ordinary Shares       
I Menezes         715,117 (of which 622,119    
                  held as ADS)                 
                                               
Name of PDMR      No. of Ordinary Shares       
A Gavazzi         63,125 (of which 35,442 held 
                  as ADS)                      
                                               
Name of PDMR      No. of ADS                   
S Saller          17,662                       
L Schwartz        26,309                       


J Fahey
Senior Company Secretarial Assistant

22 January 2015

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares