Director/PDMR Shareholding

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

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

1. Diageo plc (the 'Company') announces that on 21 February 2006 it received
notification that Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility ('PDMR') had
American Depositary Shares ('ADS') released to them as follows.

On 17 February 2006, Bailhache Labesse Trustees Limited, as trustee of the
Diageo Employee Benefit Trust ('the Trustee'), released ADSs to PDMRs, at a
level of 61.1%, as below. The ADSs were released under the Company's Long Term
Incentive Plan, now called the Total Shareholder Return Plan (the 'Plan') that
was approved by shareholders on 11 August 1998. The Diageo 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 Plan.

Name of PDMR                           No. of ADSs                             
                                                                               
R Malcolm                                      8,578                           
                                                                               
I Menezes                                     10,976                           
                                                                               
T Proctor                                     10,943                           

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

2. Following the above release of awards, the interests of PDMRs in the
Company's Ordinary Shares and ADSs (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 PDMR                        Number of Ordinary Shares                  
                                                                               
I Menezes                                    240,742*                          
                                                                               
Name of PDMR                        Number of ADSs                             
                                                                               
R Malcolm                                      26,728                          
                                                                               
T Proctor                                      51,605                          

(* of which 36,936 are held in the form of ADS. 1 ADS is the equivalent of 4
Ordinary Shares.)

22 February 2006