Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO:      Regulatory Information Service                                    
                                                                           
         PR Newswire                                                       
                                                                           
RE:      Paragraph 3.1.4 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules          

The notification listed below was received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the
Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that it received notification on 11 March
2010 that David Gosnell, a person discharging managerial responsibilities,
exercised an option on 11 March 2010 over 61,280 ordinary shares of 28 101/108
pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") granted on 19 September 2006 at a
price per share of £9.30 under the Company's Senior Executive Share Option
Plan.

Mr Gosnell subsequently sold 60,500 Ordinary Shares on 11 March 2010, at a
price per share of £10.98. Mr Gosnell retains the balance of 780 Ordinary
Shares.

As a result of the above transaction the interests of Mr Gosnell in the
Company's Ordinary Shares (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs
and interests as a potential beneficiary of the Company's Employee Benefit
Trusts) has increased to 65,094.

P D Tunnacliffe

Company Secretary

11 March 2010