Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO: Regulatory Information Service

PR Newswire

RE: Paragraph 3.1.4 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules

The notifications listed below were received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the
Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that it received notification on 20
September 2012 that the directors and Persons Discharging Managerial
Responsibilities ("PDMRs") shown below, together with other eligible employees,
were awarded ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary
Shares") under the Diageo Share Incentive Plan (the "SIP"), an Inland Revenue
approved plan operated by Diageo Group companies for the benefit of employees
of the Company and its subsidiaries on 20 September 2012:

Name of Director        No. of Ordinary      
                        Shares               
                                             
D Mahlan                176                  
                                             
P S Walsh               176                  
                                             
Name of PDMR            No. of Ordinary      
                        Shares               
                                             
N Blazquez              176                  
                                             
A Fennell               176                  
                                             
D Gosnell               176                  
                                             
J Grover                176                  
                                             
A Morgan                176                  
                                             
G Williams              176                  
                                             
I Wright                176                  

The Ordinary Shares were awarded at no cost to Plan participants
("Freeshares"), to a value based on a percentage of the participant's salary on
30 June 2012 and the Company's profits for the financial year ended 30 June
2012, subject to a maximum per SIP participant of £3,000 in value per tax year.
Freeshares are awarded annually and cannot normally be disposed of for a period
of three years after the award date.

As a result of the above transactions the interests of directors and PDMRs in
the Company's Ordinary Shares and American Depository Shares* ("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        No. of Ordinary Shares              
                                                            
D Mahlan                95,088 (of which 94,534 are held as 
                        ADS)                                
                                                            
P S Walsh               651,788                             
                                                            
Name of PDMR            No. of Ordinary Shares              
                                                            
N Blazquez              56,032                              
                                                            
A Fennell               9,870**                             
                                                            
D Gosnell               81,699                              
                                                            
J Grover                155,148                             
                                                            
A Morgan                151,036                             
                                                            
G Williams              174,146 (of which 6,424 are held as 
                        ADS)                                
                                                            
I Wright                36,598                              

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.

** Holding in Ordinary Shares has been adjusted to include 3,120 Ordinary
Shares held by his Spouse.

J Nicholls

Deputy Company Secretary

20 September 2012