Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO: Regulatory Information Service

PR Newswire

RE: Paragraph 3.1.4 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules

The notification below was received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the Disclosure and
Transparency Rules.

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that it received notification on 20
September 2007, that Mr WS Shanahan, a director, had on 19 September 2007:

(i) gifted 6,289 American Depositary Shares in the Company ("ADS") to his
charitable foundation and

(ii) purchased 1,000 ADSs at a price per ADS of $85.74.

As a result of the above, Mr Shanahan's interests in the Company's ADSs
(excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests as a
potential beneficiary of the Company's employee benefit trusts) has increased
to 7,289.

1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares of 28 101/108 pence in the
Company.

21 September 2007