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 all received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the
Disclosure and Transparency Rules. Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that it
received notification on 15 October 2014 that the following Director and
Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMRs"), as participants in
the dividend reinvestment programme connected with the US Employee Stock
Purchase Plan (also known as the US Sharevalue Plan), received American
Depository Shares ("ADS")* in respect of the Company's final dividend paid on 7
October 2014, as follows:

Name of Director         Number of ADSs                                                                 
                                                                               
D Mahlan                 58                                                                             
                          
                                                     
Name of PDMR             Number of ADSs                                                                 
                                                                               
J Kennedy                7                                                                              
                                                                               
S Saller                 31                                                                             
                                                                               
L Schwartz               83                                                                             


The ADSs were purchased on 7 October 2014 at a price of $112.19 per ADS.

As a result of the above transactions, the interests of the director and PDMRs
in the Company's ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each ("Ordinary Shares")
and ADS (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests as
potential beneficiaries of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts) have
increased to:

Name of Director           Number of Ordinary Shares                
                                                                    
D Mahlan                   279,409 (of which 137,481 are held as ADS)


Name of PDMR               Number of Ordinary Shares                
                                                                    
J Kennedy                  49,124 (of which 44,528 are held as ADS) 
                            
                                        
                           Number of ADS                            
                                                                    
S Saller                   17,477                                   
                                                                    
L Schwartz                 31,305                                   



J Fahey
Senior Company Secretarial Assistant
15 October 2014
*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.