Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO: Regulatory Information Service
                                   
     PR Newswire                   
                                   
RE:  PARAGRAPH 3.1.4 OF            
                                   
     THE DISCLOSURE RULES          
                                   

The notification listed below is in respect of a single transaction of which
notification was received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the Disclosure Rules and
Section 324 of the Companies Act 1985.

Diageo plc (the 'Company') announces that the director named below was granted
on 13 October 2005 options to subscribe for ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence
each in the Company ('Ordinary Shares') under the Company's UK Sharesave
Scheme, namely:

Name of Director No. of Ordinary Shares Dates Option Exercisable between
                                                                        
P S Walsh        2,465                  1 December 2010 and 31 May 2011 
                                                                        

Each option has been granted at a price of £6.53 per Ordinary Share.

As a result of the above, P S Walsh's interests in the Company's Ordinary
Shares (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests as a
potential beneficiary of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts) is 747,523
Ordinary Shares.

13 October 2005