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 it received notification today that
the following directors, as participants in the Diageo Dividend Reinvestment
Plan (the "Plan") received ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence in the Company
("Ordinary Shares") in respect of the interim ordinary paid on 6 April 2006 as
follows:

Name of Director                        Number of Ordinary Shares              
                                                                               
Lord Blyth                              1,605                                  
                                                                               
N C Rose                                3,718                                  

The Ordinary Shares were purchased on 6 and 7 April 2006 (with a settlement
date of 12 April 2006) at a price of £9.014.

As a result of the above transaction, these directors' interests in the
Company's Ordinary Shares (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs
and also interests as potential beneficiaries of the Grand Metropolitan No 2
Employee Share Trust and the Diageo Employee Benefit Trust) have increased as
follows:

Name of Director                      Number of Ordinary Shares                
                                                                               
Lord Blyth                            125,739                                  
                                                                               
N C Rose                              294,627                                  

12 April 2006