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 that it received notification on 29 May
that:

 1. Nicola Mendelsohn, a director of the Company, had purchased 5,000 ordinary
    shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") on 28
    May 2015 at a price per ordinary share of £18.39. The Ordinary Shares were
    purchased on the London Stock Exchange; and
 2. Ho KwonPing, a director of the Company, had received 74 Ordinary Shares on
    2 October 2014 and 46 Ordinary Shares on 7 April 2015, as a participant in
    the Diageo Dividend Reinvestment Plan. The Ordinary Shares were purchased
    on the London Stock Exchange.

As a result of the above transactions, interests of the above directors in the
Company's Ordinary Shares (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs
and interests as potential beneficiaries of the Company's Employee Benefit
Trusts) have increased as follows:

Name of Director           Number of Ordinary Shares           
                                                               
Ho KwonPing                4,223                               
Nicola Mendelsohn          5,000                               
                                                               

J Fahey

Senior Company Secretarial Assistant

29 May 2015