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 19 March
2015 that Leanne Wood, a person discharging managerial responsibility ("PDMR"),
sold, on 19 March 2015, 1,000 ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the
Company ("Ordinary Shares") at a price per Ordinary Share of £19.67. The
Ordinary Shares were sold on the London Stock Exchange.

As a result of the above transaction, the interests of Ms Wood in the Ordinary
Shares of the Company (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and
interests as a potential beneficiary of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts)
are now 5,960.

Jane Fahey

Senior Company Secretarial Assistant

19 March 2015