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 today that
the following Person Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR") had on 21
December 2010 transferred the below listed ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence
each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") held in his own name to his spouse:

Name of PDMR                            Number of Ordinary Shares transferred  
                                        to spouse                              
                                                                               
David Gosnell      Mrs Susan Gosnell    8,052                                  

The interests of the PDMR in the Company's Ordinary Shares (excluding options,
awards under the Company's LTIPs and interest as potential beneficiary of the
Company's Employee Benefit Trusts) are unchanged as a result of the above
transaction.

PD Tunnacliffe

Company Secretary

21 December 2010