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 itreceived notification on 15 April 2015 that the following Directors and PersonsDischarging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR"), as participants in thedividend reinvestment programme connected with the US Employee Stock PurchasePlan (also known as the US Sharevalue Plan), received American DepositoryShares ("ADS")* in respect of the Company's interim dividend paid on 10 April2015, as follows: Name of Director Number of ADSs D Mahlan 36 I Menezes 1 Name of PDMR Number of ADSs J Kennedy 5 S Saller 21 L Schwartz 54 The ADSs were purchased on the New York Stock Exchange on 13 April 2015 at aprice of $113.85 per ADS. As a result of the above transactions, the interests of the directors and PDMRsin the Company's ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each ("Ordinary Shares")and ADS (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests aspotential beneficiaries of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts) haveincreased to: Name of Director Number of Ordinary Shares D Mahlan 280,551 (of which 137,626 are held as ADS) I Menezes 749,518 (of which 646,520 are held as ADS) Name of PDMR Number of Ordinary Shares J Kennedy 49,142 (of which 44,546 are held as ADS) Number of ADS S Saller 17,684 L Schwartz 26,363 J FaheySenior Company Secretarial Assistant16 April 2015*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.