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.

Diageo plc (the 'Company') announces that:

1. Mr P S Walsh, a director, notified the Company on 9 September 2005 that:

a.        on 9 September 2005, he exercised options over 50,000 Ordinary Shares
of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company ('Ordinary Shares') granted on 20
December 1999 at a price per share of £5.18 under the Senior Executive Share
Option Plan of the Company; and

b.        on 9 September 2005, he sold 40,000 Ordinary Shares at a price per
share of £8.24.

Mr Walsh will retain beneficial ownership of the balance of 10,000 Ordinary
Shares.

2.  It received notification on 12 September 2005 from Bailhache Labesse
Trustees Limited, as trustee of the Employee Benefit Trust ('Bailhache'):

a.        that they had transferred 50,000 Ordinary Shares to a beneficiary of
the Employee Benefit Trust on 9 September 2005, following an exercise of
options under the Company's Senior Executive Share Option Plan; and

b.        that they have accepted 39,538 Ordinary Shares from another employee
benefit trust of the Company which has now satisfied its obligations.

As a result of the above transactions the total holding of the Employee Benefit
Trust amounts to 7,362,748 Ordinary Shares.

3. It received notification on 12 September 2005 of the following allocations
of Ordinary Shares under the Diageo Share Incentive Plan (the 'Plan'), namely:

(i) the following directors of the Company were allocated Ordinary Shares on 12
September 2005 under the Plan, by Diageo Share Ownership Trustees Limited (the
'Trustee'):

Name of Director Number of Ordinary Shares
                                          
N C Rose         23                       
                                          
P S Walsh        23                       
                                          

(ii) the following 'Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities' were
allocated Ordinary Shares on 12 September 2005 under the Plan, by the Trustee:

Name of Person Number of Ordinary Shares
                                        
S Fletcher     23                       
                                        
J Grover       23                       
                                        
A Morgan       23                       
                                        
G Williams     23                       
                                        

The number of Ordinary Shares allocated comprises those purchased on behalf of
the employee using an amount which the employee has chosen to have deducted
from salary ('Sharepurchase') and those awarded to the employee by the Company
('Sharematch') on the basis of one Sharematch Ordinary Share for every two
Sharepurchase Ordinary Shares.

The Sharepurchase Ordinary Shares were purchased and the Sharematch Ordinary
Shares were awarded at a price per share of £8.26.

The Ordinary Shares are held by the Trustee and in the name of the Trustee.
Sharepurchase Ordinary Shares can normally be sold at any time. Sharematch
Ordinary Shares cannot normally be disposed of for a period of three years
after the award date.

As a result of the above, interests of directors and 'Persons Discharging
Managerial Responsibilities' 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         243,883                  
                                          
P S Walsh        745,133                  
                                          
S Fletcher         97,117                 
                                          
J Grover         136,737                  
                                          
A Morgan         115,591                  
                                          
G Williams       169,154*                 
                                          

(*of which 5,423 are held in the form of American Depository Shares ('ADS'). 1
ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.)

4. It received notification on 12 September 2005 from Lord Blyth, a director of
the Company, that he has purchased 3,310 Ordinary Shares on 12 September 2005
under an arrangement with the Company, whereby he has agreed to use an amount
each month, net of tax, from his director's fees to purchase Ordinary Shares.
Lord Blyth has agreed to retain the Ordinary Shares while he remains a director
of the Company.

The Ordinary Shares were purchased at a price per share of £8.26.

As a result of this purchase, Lord Blyth's interest in Ordinary Shares has
increased to 113,513.

5. It received notification on 12 September 2005 from Todd Stitzer, a director
of the Company, that he has purchased 120 Ordinary Shares on 12 September 2005
under an arrangement with the Company, whereby he has agreed to use an amount
of £1,000 per month, net of tax, from his director's fees to purchase Ordinary
Shares.

The Ordinary Shares were purchased at a price per share of £8.26

As a result of this purchase, Mr Stitzer's interest in Ordinary Shares has
increased to 1,967.

12 September 2005