Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO: Regulatory Information Service

PR Newswire

RE: Paragraph 3.1.4 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules

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

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that it received notification on 20 April
2012 that the following Director and Persons Discharging Managerial
Responsibilities ("PDMR"), as participants in the dividend reinvestment
programme connected with the Company's US Employee Stock Purchase Plan (also
known as the US Sharevalue Plan), received American Depository Shares ("ADS*")
in lieu of the Company's interim dividend paid on 10 April 2012, as follows:

Name of Director          Number of ADSs                                     
                                                                             
D Mahlan                  32                                                 
                                                                             
Name of PDMR              Number of ADSs                                     
                                                                             
G Ghostine                13                                                 
                                                                             
I Menezes                 58                                                 
                                                                             
R Millian                 27                                                 
                                                                             
T Proctor                 4                                                  
                                                                             
L Schwartz                40                                                 
                                                                             
G Williams                12                                                 

The ADSs were purchased on 13 April 2012 at a price of $98.20 per ADS.

As a result of the above transactions, interests of directors and PDMRs in the
Company's Ordinary Shares and ADS (excluding options, awards under the
Company's LTIPs and interests as potential beneficiaries of the Company's
Employee Benefit Trusts) are as follows:

Name of Director          Number of Ordinary Shares                    
                                                                       
D Mahlan                  94,855 (of which 94,533 held as ADS)         
                                                                       
Name of PDMR              Number of Ordinary Shares                    
                                                                       
G Ghostine                65,370 (of which 33,126 held as ADS)         
                                                                       
I Menezes                 439,262 (of which 346,265 held as ADS)       
                                                                       
G Williams                173,913 (of which 6,424 held as ADS)         
                                                                       
R Millian                 Number of ADS                                
                                                                       
T Proctor                 11,129                                       
                                                                       
                          29,662                                       
                                                                       
L Schwartz                11,734                                       
                                                                       

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.

J Nicholls

Deputy Company Secretary

23 April 2012