Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO:       Regulatory Information Service                                       
                                                                               
          PR Newswire                                                          
                                                                               
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 that it
received notification on 15 April 2015 that the following Directors and Persons
Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR"), as participants in the
dividend reinvestment programme connected with the US Employee Stock Purchase
Plan (also known as the US Sharevalue Plan), received American Depository
Shares ("ADS")* in respect of the Company's interim dividend paid on 10 April
2015, as follows:

Name of Director       Number of ADSs                                                                 
                                                                               
D Mahlan               36                                                                             
                                                                               
I Menezes              1                                                                              
                                                                               

Name of PDMR           Number of ADSs                                                                 
                                                                               
J Kennedy              5                                                                              
                                                                               
S Saller               21                                                                             
                                                                               
L Schwartz             54                                                                             

The ADSs were purchased on the New York Stock Exchange on 13 April 2015 at a
price of $113.85 per ADS.

As a result of the above transactions, the interests of the directors 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) have
increased to:

Name of Director           Number of Ordinary Shares                
                                                                    
D Mahlan                   280,551 (of which 137,626 are held as ADS)                                     
                                                                    
I Menezes                  749,518 (of which 646,520 are held as ADS)                                     
                                                                    

Name of PDMR               Number of Ordinary Shares                
                                                                    
J Kennedy                  49,142 (of which 44,546 are held as ADS) 
                                                                    
                          
                           Number of ADS                            
                                                                    
S Saller                   17,684                                   
                                                                    
L Schwartz                 26,363                                   


J Fahey
Senior Company Secretarial Assistant
16 April 2015
*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.