Holding(s) in Company

TO:       Regulatory Information Service                                       
                                                                               
          PR Newswire                                                          
                                                                               
RE:       CHAPTER 9 PARAGRAPH 9.6.7                                            
                                                                               
          THE LISTING RULES                                                    

 

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that it received notification on 21
December 2006, for the purposes of Sections 198 to 208 of the Companies Act
1985, from Barclays PLC ("Barclays") that, following their sale on 14 December
2006 of 2,998,910 of the Company's ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each
("Ordinary Shares"), they no longer have a notifiable interest in the Company's
issued share capital.

The issued share capital of the Company as at 14 December 2006 was
2,725,758,273 Ordinary Shares excluding 280,982,237 Ordinary Shares held as
Treasury Shares.

22 December 2006