Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO:       Regulatory Information Service                                       
                                                                               
          PR Newswire                                                          
                                                                               
RE:       CHAPTER 3.1.4                                                        
                                                                               
          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 Section 324 of the Companies Act 1985.

Diageo plc (the 'Company') announces that the following directors of the
Company are participants in the Diageo Dividend Reinvestment Plan and that the
Company's ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence ('Ordinary Shares') were
purchased on 24 October 2005 (with a settlement date of 27 October 2005) at a
price per share of 8.202p in respect of the final ordinary dividend paid on 24
October 2005:

Name of Director                        Number of Ordinary Shares              
                                                                               
Lord Blyth                              2,503                                  
                                                                               
N C Rose                                5,297                                  

As a result of the above, interests of directors 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              
                                                                               
Lord Blyth                              117,227                               
                                                                               
N C Rose                                249,570                                

27 October 2005