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 andTransparency Rules.

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that it received notification on 24 April2013 that the following Directors and Persons Discharging ManagerialResponsibilities ("PDMR"), as participants in the dividend reinvestmentprogramme connected with the Company's US Employee Stock Purchase Plan (alsoknown as the US Sharevalue Plan) (the "USESPP"), received American DepositoryShares ("ADS*") in lieu of the Company's interim dividend paid on 12 April2013, as follows: Name of Director Number of ADSs D Mahlan 28 I Menezes 35 Name of PDMR Number of ADSs G Ghostine 8 J Kennedy 3 R Millian 26 T Proctor 3 L Schwartz 38 G Williams 11

The ADSs were purchased on 12 April 2013 at a price of $122.33 per ADS.

As a result of the above transactions, interests of directors and PDMRs in theCompany's Ordinary Shares and ADS (excluding options, awards under theCompany's LTIPs and interests as potential beneficiaries of the Company'sEmployee Benefit Trusts) are as follows:

Name of Director Number of Ordinary Shares D Mahlan 132,315 (of which 131,691 held as ADS) I Menezes 524,617 (of which 431,619 held as ADS) Name of PDMR Number of Ordinary Shares G Ghostine 106,332 (of which 33,207 held as ADS) J Kennedy 23,186 (of which 18,590 held as ADS) G Williams 176,483 (of which 6,535 held as ADS) Number of ADS R Millian 21,139 T Proctor 28,904 L Schwartz 20,853

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.

J Nicholls Deputy Company Secretary 25 April 2013