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 all received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of theDisclosure and Transparency Rules.

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that it received notification on 11December 2012 that the following Director & Persons Discharging ManagerialResponsibilities ("PDMRs") were granted an estimated number of options tosubscribe for American Depository Shares ("ADS")* under the USESPP as follows:

Name of Grant Date Estimated No Grant Exercisable Director

of ADS price per granted ADS I Menezes 1 October 2012 208 $95.81 31 December 2013 Name of Grant Date Estimated No Grant Exercisable of ADS price per PDMR granted ADS R Millian 1 October 2012 208 $95.81 31 December 2013 T Proctor 1 October 2012 208 $95.81 31 December 2013 L Schwartz 1 October 2012 208 $95.81 31 December 2013 As a result of the above transactions, interests of the director and PDMRs inthe Company's ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each ("Ordinary Shares") andADS (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests aspotential beneficiaries of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts) remain asfollows:Name of Director Number of Ordinary Shares I Menezes 519,256 (of which 426,258 are held as ADS) Name of PDMR Number of ADS R Millian 20,807 T Proctor 38,595 L Schwartz 20,172 P D TunnacliffeCompany Secretary11 December 2012

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.