Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO: Regulatory Information Service

PR Newswire

RE: Paragraph 3.1.4 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules and Paragraph
12.6.4 of the Listing Rules

The notifications listed below were received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the
Disclosure and Transparency Rules and Paragraph 12.6.4 of the Listing Rules.

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that:

1) on 21 September 2009 it received the following notifications from the
trustee of the Diageo No 2 Employees' 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.

a) Appleby Trust (Jersey) Limited, as trustee of the Employee Benefit Trust
(the `Trustee'), had today, released 10,215 ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence
of the Company (Ordinary Shares') to Andrew Fennell, a Person Discharging
Managerial Responsibility (`PDMR'), under the Diageo Incentive Plan (the
`DIP'). The award was made on 20 September 2005. The balance of the award
lapsed.

b) the Trustee had today sold 4,189 Ordinary Shares to meet the requirement to
reimburse the Company for PAYE tax and National Insurance/social security
liabilities on awards released under the DIP on behalf of Mr Fennell, a PDMR.
Mr Fennell retains beneficial ownership of the balance of 6,026 Ordinary
Shares.

2) on 21 September 2009 it received notification that Ivan Menezes, a PDMR,
received 12,432 American Depositary Shares (`ADS') under the DIP. The award was
made on 19 September 2006.

On 21 September 2009, Mr Menezes sold 5,291 ADSs to meet the requirement to
reimburse the Company for PAYE tax and National Insurance/social security
liabilities on awards released under the DIP. He subsequently sold 6,141 ADSs
at a price per ADS of $63.482, and retains beneficial ownership of the balance
of 1,000 ADSs.

3) on 22 September 2009 it received notification that Paul Walsh, a director,
exercised an option on 22 September 2009 over 100,000 Ordinary Shares granted
on 10 October 2003 at a price per share of £6.49 under the Company's Senior
Executive Share Option Plan ("SESOP").

Mr Walsh subsequently sold 99,000 Ordinary Shares, on 22 September 2009, at a
price per share of £9.853, and retains beneficial ownership of the balance of
1,000 Ordinary Shares.

As a result of the above release of awards the interests of these directors and
PDMRs in the Company's Ordinary Shares and ADSs (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               
                                                                             
Andrew Fennell                       23,190                                  
                                                                             
Ivan Menezes                         323,541 (230,543 held as ADSs*)         
                                                                             
Name of director                                                             
                                                                             
Paul Walsh                           721,253                                 

3) the award made on 19 September 2006 under the Company's Long Term Incentive
Plan (now called the Total Shareholder Return Plan) (the "Plan"), approved by
shareholders on 11 August 1998, had lapsed.

4) on 21 September 2009 it released from treasury 90,896 Ordinary Shares, to
satisfy grants made under employee share plans. The average price at which
these Ordinary Shares were released from treasury was 976.71 pence per share.

Following this release, the Company holds 254,125,143 Ordinary Shares as
treasury shares and the total number of Ordinary Shares in issue (excluding
shares held as treasury shares) is 2,499,793,966.

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.

P D Tunnacliffe

Company Secretary

22 September 2009