Director/PDMR Shareholding

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

The notifications listed below are each in respect of a single transaction of
which notification was received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the Disclosure Rules
and, in respect of directors of Diageo plc only, Section 324 of the Companies
Act 1985.

1. Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that on 16 February 2007 it received
notification from the trustee of the Diageo Employee Benefit Trust (the
"Employee Benefit Trust") as detailed below. The Employee Benefit Trust is a
discretionary trust for the benefit of employees of the Company and its
subsidiaries and operates primarily in conjunction with the Company's Long Term
Incentive Plan, now called the Total Shareholder Return Plan (the "Plan"),
approved by shareholders on 11 August 1998.

a) Appleby Trust (Jersey) Limited, as trustee of the Employee Benefit Trust
("the Trustee"), had, on 16 February 2007, released ordinary shares of 28 101/
108 pence of the Company ("Ordinary Shares") to participants under the Plan at
a level of 72% as follows:

Date of Transaction          No. of Ordinary Shares                            
                                                                               
16.02.2007                   584,335                                           

including Ordinary Shares and American Depositary Shares ("ADSs") transferred
to directors and Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility ("PDMR"),
receiving awards released under the Plan, as follows: 

Name of Director             No. of Ordinary Shares                            
                                                                               
NC Rose                      76,795                                            
                                                                               
PS Walsh                     134,191                                           
                                                                               
Name of PDMR                 No. of Ordinary Shares                            
                                                                               
S Fletcher                   36,215                                            
                                                                               
J Grover                     31,257                                            
                                                                               
A Morgan                     37,185                                            
                                                                               
G Williams                   32,442                                            
                                                                               
                             No. of ADSs*                                      
                                                                               
R Malcolm                    11,287                                            
                                                                               
I Menezes                    16,385                                            
                                                                               
T Proctor                    14,248                                            

The awards were made on 20 February 2004. The balance of each award has lapsed.

b) the Trustee had, on 16 February 2007, made the following sale of Ordinary
Shares to meet the requirement to reimburse the Company for PAYE tax and
National Insurance liabilities on awards released under the Plan:

Date of Transaction         No. Ordinary Shares Sold Sale Price of Ordinary    
                                                     Shares                    
                                                                               
16.2.2007                   163,101                  £10.3518                  
                                                                               
                            No. ADSs Sold            Sale Price of ADSs        
                                                                               
16.2.2007                   15,345                   $81.38                    

including Ordinary Shares and ADSs sold on behalf of directors and PDMRs, as
follows:

Name of Director            No. Ordinary Shares Sold  Sale Price of Ordinary   
                                                      Shares                   
                                                                               
NC Rose                     31,486                    £10.3518                 
                                                                               
PS Walsh                    55,019                    £10.3518                 
                                                                               
Name of PDMR                                                                   
                                                                               
S Fletcher                  14,849                    £10.3518                 
                                                                               
J Grover                    12,816                    £10.3518                 
                                                                               
A Morgan                    15,246                    £10.3518                 
                                                                               
G Williams                  13,302                    £10.3518                 
                                                                               
                            No. ADSs Sold             Sale Price of ADSs       
                                                                               
R Malcolm                   3,538                   $81.38                     
                                                                               
I Menezes                   5,299                   $81.38                     
                                                                               
T Proctor                   5,368                   $81.38                     

2. Mr PS Walsh notified the Company that on 16 February 2007 he sold 39,172
Ordinary Shares at a price per share of £10.35. Therefore he has retained
40,000 of the shares released to him under the Plan, as announced in 1. a)
above.

3. The Company announces that it received a notification from the Trustee on 16
February 2007 that as a result of the transactions detailed above in 1, the
total holding of the Employee Benefit Trust amounts to 5,413,657 Ordinary
Shares.

4. As a result of the above release of awards and sales, the interests of
directors and PDMRs 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) are as follows:

Name of Director              Number of Ordinary Shares                         
                                                                                
N C Rose                      356,195                                           
                                                                                
P S Walsh                     616,011                                           
                                                                                
Name of PDMR                  Number of Ordinary Shares                         
                                                                                
S Fletcher                    132,781                                           
                                                                                
J Grover                      170,933                                           
                                                                                
I Menezes                     285,358**                                         
                                                                                
A Morgan                      128,922                                           
                                                                                
G Williams                    208,312***                                        
                                                                                
                              No. of ADSs                                       
                                                                                
R Malcolm                     29,977                                            
                                                                                
T Proctor                     35,921                                            

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.

(** of which 192,360 are held in the form of ADS.)

(*** of which 5,559 are held in the form of ADS.)

19 February 2007