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 14
December 2011 that the following Person Discharging Managerial Responsibilities
("PDMR") had on 14 December 2011 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    7,362                                  

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.

J Nicholls

Deputy Company Secretary

15 December 2011