Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO: Regulatory Information Service

PR Newswire

RE: PARAGRAPH 3.1.4 OF

THE DISCLOSURE RULES

The notification listed below regarding Mr PS Walsh 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:

1. Mr PS Walsh, a director, notified the Company today that he had today
received 3,341 Ordinary Shares of 28 101/108 pence in the Company ('Ordinary
Shares') upon exercise of options granted on 8 November 2000 at a price per
Ordinary Share of £5.05 under the Diageo UK Sharesave Scheme 2000.

As a result of the above, Mr Walsh's interest in Ordinary Shares in the Company
(excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interest as a
potential beneficiary of the Company's employee benefit trusts) is 753,387.

2. it received notification today from Bailhache Labesse Trustees Limited, as
trustee of the Diageo Employee Benefit Trust (the 'Employee Benefit Trust')
that they had today transferred 3,341 Ordinary Shares to a beneficiary of the
Employee Benefit Trust.

As a result of this transaction the total holding of the Employee Benefit Trust
amounts to 7,262,748.

Directors who are beneficiaries of the Employee Benefit Trust are PS Walsh and
NC Rose.

1 December 2005