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 today:

1) the directors shown below were granted the following options over the
Company's ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence ("Ordinary Shares") under the
Company's Senior Executive Share Option Plan (the "SESOP"), approved by
shareholders on 9 November 1999: 

Name of Director                     No. of Ordinary Shares                  
                                                                             
N C Rose                                    226,569                          
                                                                             
P S Walsh                                   392,483                          

2) the Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR") shown below
were granted the following options over Ordinary Shares or American Depositary
Shares ("ADS") under the SESOP: 

Name of PDMR                         No. of Ordinary Shares                  
                                                                             
S Fletcher                                    99,904                         
                                                                             
J Grover                                      81,351                         
                                                                             
A Morgan                                     110,608                         
                                                                             
J Pollaers                                    80,413                         
                                                                             
G Williams                                    89,914                         
                                                                             
                                     No. of ADS*                             
                                                                             
R Malcolm                                     24,843                         
                                                                             
I Menezes                                     40,813                         
                                                                             
T Proctor                                     30,832                         

Each option was granted at a price of £10.51 per Ordinary Share (or $84.53 per
ADS) and is exercisable between 18 September 2010 and 17 September 2017,
subject to the satisfaction of performance criteria.

3) the directors shown below acquired an interest in Ordinary Shares in the
form of awards under the Company's Long Term Incentive Plan, known as the Total
Shareholder Return plan (the "TSR Plan"), approved by shareholders on 11 August
1998, as follows: 

Name of Director                     No. of Ordinary Shares                  
                                                                             
N C Rose                                     191,843                         
                                                                             
P S Walsh                                    415,407                         

4) the PDMRs shown below acquired an interest in Ordinary Shares or ADSs in the
form of awards under the TSR Plan, as follows: 

Name of PDMR                         No. of Ordinary Shares                  
                                                                             
S Fletcher                                    95,166                         
                                                                             
J Grover                                      77,492                         
                                                                             
A Morgan                                     105,362                         
                                                                             
J Pollaers                                    80,169                         
                                                                             
G Williams                                    85,649                         
                                                                             
                                     No. of ADS*                             
                                                                             
R Malcolm                                     21,783                         
                                                                             
I Menezes                                     35,787                         
                                                                             
T Proctor                                     27,035                         

The numbers shown above for each director and PDMR is the maximum number of
shares which could be transferred upon achieving top performance (1st or 2nd
position) by reference to Diageo's seventeen company peer group used in the
performance test for the 2007 awards under the TSR Plan. At position 9 within
the TSR peer group 23.3% of the above shares would be transferred.

The performance period commenced on 1 July 2007 and, subject to the rules of
the TSR Plan and depending on Diageo's TSR performance relative to its peer
groups, the awards will be released in September 2010.

5) the directors and PDMRs shown below, together with other eligible employees,
were today awarded Ordinary Shares under the Diageo Share Incentive Plan (the
"Plan"), an Inland Revenue approved plan operated by Diageo Group companies for
the benefit of employees of the Company and its subsidiaries:

Name of Director                     No. of Ordinary Shares                  
                                                                             
N C Rose                                         285                         
                                                                             
P S Walsh                                        285                         
                                                                             
Name of PDMR                                                                 
                                                                             
S Fletcher                                       285                         
                                                                             
J Grover                                         285                         
                                                                             
A Morgan                                         285                         
                                                                             
G Williams                                       285                         

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 2007 and the Company's profits for the financial year ended 30 June
2007, subject to a maximum per Plan 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, the directors' and PDMRs' interests in the Company's
Ordinary Shares (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and
interests as potential beneficiaries of Diageo group employee share trusts) are
as follows:

Name of Director                     No. of Ordinary Shares                  
                                                                             
N C Rose                                     360,827                         
                                                                             
P S Walsh                                    638,172                         
                                                                             
Name of PDMR                                                                 
                                                                             
S Fletcher                                   133,192                         
                                                                             
J Grover                                     171,344                         
                                                                             
I Menezes                                   271,094*                         
                                                                             
A Morgan                                     131,790                         
                                                                             
J Pollaers                                    39,904                         
                                                                             
G Williams                                 208,848**                         
                                                                             
                                     No. of ADS                              
                                                                             
R Malcolm                                     20,000                         
                                                                             
T Proctor                                     27,464                         

**of which 178,096 are held in the form of ADS.

**of which 5,684 are held in the form of ADS.

1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.

18 September 2007