Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO:       Regulatory Information Service                                       
                                                                               
          PR Newswire                                                          
                                                                               
RE:       PARAGRAPH 3.1.4 OF                                                   
                                                                               
          THE DISCLOSURE RULES                                                 

The notifications listed below are each in respect of a single transaction of
which notification was received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the Disclosure Rules
and, in respect of directors of Diageo plc only, Section 324 of the Companies
Act 1985.

1. Diageo plc (the 'Company') announces that on 17 February 2006 it received
notification from the trustee of the Diageo Employee Benefit Trust (the
'Employee Benefit Trust') as detailed below. The Employee Benefit Trust is a
discretionary trust for the benefit of employees of the Company and its
subsidiaries and operates primarily in conjunction with the Company's Long Term
Incentive Plan, now called the Total Shareholder Return Plan (the 'Plan'),
approved by shareholders on 11 August 1998.

a) Bailhache Labesse Trustees Limited, as trustee of the Employee Benefit Trust
('the Trustee'), had, on 17 February 2006, released ordinary shares of 28 101/
108 pence of the Company ('Ordinary Shares') to participants under the Plan at
a level of 61.1% as follows:

Date of Transaction                     No. of Ordinary Shares                 
                                                                               
17.02.2006                              421,335                                

including Ordinary Shares transferred to directors and Persons Discharging
Managerial Responsibility ('PDMR'), receiving awards released under the Plan,
as follows: 

Name of Director                        No. of Ordinary Shares                 
                                                                               
NC Rose                                 52,896                                 
                                                                               
PS Walsh                                91,994                                 
                                                                               
Name of PDMR                            No. of Ordinary Shares                 
                                                                               
S Fletcher                              25,114                                 
                                                                               
J Grover                                21,556                                 
                                                                               
A Morgan                                25,355                                 
                                                                               
G Williams                              22,393                                 

The awards were made on 21 February 2003. The balance of each award has lapsed.

b) the Trustee had, on 17 February 2006, made the following sale of Ordinary
Shares to meet the requirement to reimburse the Company for PAYE tax and
National Insurance liabilities on awards released under the Plan:

Date of Transaction       No. Ordinary Shares Sold   Sale Price of Ordinary    
                                                     Shares                    
                                                                               
17.2.2006                 96,778                     £8.783                    

including Ordinary Shares sold on behalf of directors and PDMRs, as follows:

Name of Director          No. Ordinary Shares Sold   Sale Price of Ordinary    
                                                     Shares                    
                                                                               
NC Rose                   21,688                     £8.783                    
                                                                               
PS Walsh                  37,718                     £8.783                    
                                                                               
Name of PDMR                                                                   
                                                                               
S Fletcher                10,297                     £8.783                    
                                                                               
J Grover                  8,838                      £8.783                    
                                                                               
G Williams                9,182                      £8.783                    

2. Mr PS Walsh notified the Company that on 17 February 2006 he sold 49,276
Ordinary Shares at a price per share of £8.70. Therefore he has retained 5,000
of the shares released to him under the Plan, as announced in 1. a) above.

3. Mr PS Walsh notified the Company that on 17 February 2006:

a) he exercised options over 75,000 Ordinary Shares granted on 20 December 1999
at a price per share of £5.18 under the Company `s Senior Executive Share
Option Plan; and

b) he sold 72,500 Ordinary Shares at a price per share of £8.785.

Mr Walsh will retain ownership of the balance of 2,500 Ordinary Shares.

4. The Company announces that it received a notification from the Trustee on 17
February 2006 that as a result of the transactions detailed above in 1 and 3,
the total holding of the Employee Benefit Trust amounts to 6,616,413 Ordinary
Shares.

5. As a result of the above release of awards and sales, the interests of
directors and PDMRs 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) are as follows:

Name of Director                      Number of Ordinary Shares                
                                                                               
N C Rose                              285,867                                  
                                                                               
P S Walsh                             760,953                                  
                                                                               
Name of PDMR                          Number of Ordinary Shares                
                                                                               
S Fletcher                            112,413                                  
                                                                               
J Grover                              149,934                                  
                                                                               
A Morgan                              141,425                                  
                                                                               
G Williams                            182,844*                                 

(* of which 5,423 are held in the form of ADS. 1 ADS is the equivalent of 4
Ordinary Shares.)

20 February 2006