Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO:      Regulatory Information Service                                    
                                                                           
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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 1
December 2011 that Tim Proctor, a person discharging managerial responsibility,
exercised options on 29 November 2011 over 68,042 American Depositary Shares
("ADS")* under the Company's Senior Executive Share Option Plan ("SESOP") as
set out below:

No. of Ordinary    Date of grant        Price per share  
Shares                                                   
                                                         
40,530             20 September 2005    $59.40           
                                                         
27,512             27 October 2008      $56.84           

Mr Proctor subsequently sold 67,360 ADSs on 29 November 2011, at a price per
share of $82.00. Mr Proctor retains the balance of 682 ADSs.

Mr Proctor sold a further 10,000 ADSs on 29 November 2011, as set out below:

No. of Ordinary     Price per share  
Shares                               
                                     
7,000               $82.288          
                                     
3,000               $83.228          

As a result of the above transactions, the interests of Mr Proctor in ordinary
shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") and ADSs
(excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests as a
potential beneficiary of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts) have increased
to 29,263 ADS.

J Nicholls

Deputy Secretary

2 December 2011

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.