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 directors and Person Discharging Managerial Responsibilities
("PDMR"), as participants in the Diageo Dividend Reinvestment Plan (the "Plan")
had received ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence in the Company ("Ordinary
Shares") in lieu of the interim dividend paid on 6 April 2010 as follows:

Name of Director                  Number of Ordinary Shares                
                                                                           
Dr FB Humer                                          214                   
                                                                           
NC Rose                                             6,007                  
                                                                           
Name of PDMR                                                               
                                                                           
G Williams*                                          28                    

The Ordinary Shares were purchased on 6 April 2010 (with a settlement date of 9
April 2010) at an average price of £11.33.

As a result of the above transaction, these directors' and PDMR's interests in
the Company's Ordinary Shares (excluding options, awards under the Company's
LTIPs and interests as potential beneficiaries of the Company's employee
benefit trusts) have increased as follows:

Name of Director                     Number of Ordinary Shares                 
                                                                               
Dr FB Humer                                          21,198                    
                                                                               
NC Rose                                              478,827                   
                                                                               
Name of PDMR                         Number of Ordinary Shares                 
                                                                               
G Williams                           216,743 (of which 6,088 are held in the   
                                                 form of ADS**)                

P D Tunnacliffe

Company Secretary

7 April 2010

* In respect of shares held by his son David Rhys Williams.

**1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.