Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO: Regulatory Information Service

PR Newswire

RE: Paragraph 3.1.4 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules

The notifications below were received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the Disclosure
and Transparency Rules.

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that it received notification on 4
February 2008 that Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR"), as
participants in the Company's US Employee Stock Purchase Plan (also known as
the US Sharevalue Plan) (the "Plan"), purchased American Depository Shares in
the Company ("ADS") on 31 December 2007 at a price of $60.62 per ADS, as
follows:

Name of PDMR                                Number of ADSs*                  
                                                                             
R Malcolm                                   329.92                           
                                                                             
I Menezes                                   329.92                           
                                                                             
T Proctor                                   329.92                           

As a result of the above transactions, the interests of the PDMRs in the
Company's Ordinary Shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company ("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 PDMR                                                                 
                                                                             
                                            Number of Ordinary Shares        
                                                                             
I Menezes                                   274,659 (of which 181,661 are    
                                            held in the form of ADS)         
                                                                             
                                            Number of ADSs*                  
                                                                             
R Malcolm                                   22,180                           
                                                                             
T Proctor                                   29,329                           

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.

5 February 2008