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 the
Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that:

 1. It received notification on 10 November 2014 of the following allocations
    of ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary
    Shares") under the Diageo Share Incentive Plan (the "Plan"), namely:

(i) the following director of the Company was allocated Ordinary Shares on 10
November 2014  under the Plan, by Diageo Share Ownership Trustees Limited (the
"Trustee"):

Name of Director            Number of Ordinary Shares

D Mahlan                    11

(ii) the following Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR")
were allocated Ordinary Shares on 10 October 2014 under the Plan, by the
Trustee:

Name of PDMR                Number of Ordinary Shares

N Blazquez                  11

S Moriarty                  11

L Wood                      10

The number of Ordinary Shares allocated comprises those purchased on behalf of
the employee using an amount which the employee has chosen to have deducted
from salary ("Sharepurchase") and those awarded to the employee by the Company
("Sharematch") on the basis of one Sharematch Ordinary Share for every two
Sharepurchase Ordinary Shares.

The Sharepurchase Ordinary Shares were purchased and the Sharematch Ordinary
Shares were awarded at a price per share of £18.40.

The Ordinary Shares are held by the Trustee and in the name of the Trustee.
Sharepurchase Ordinary Shares can normally be sold at any time. Sharematch
Ordinary Shares cannot normally be disposed of for a period of three years
after the award date.

 2. It received notification on 10 November 2014 that Dr FB Humer, a director
    of the Company, had purchased 450 Ordinary Shares on 10 November 2014 under
    an arrangement with the Company, whereby he has agreed to use an amount of
    £8,000 each month, net of tax, from his director's fees to purchase
    Ordinary Shares. Dr Humer has agreed to retain the Ordinary Shares while he
    remains a director of the Company.

The Ordinary Shares were purchased at a price per share of £18.40.

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

Name of Director            Number of Ordinary Shares

Dr FB Humer                 56,403

D Mahlan                    279,420 (of which 137,481 are held as ADS)*


Name of PDMR                Number of Ordinary Shares

N Blazquez                  95,837

S Moriarty                  41,717

L Wood                      6,895


J Fahey
Senior Company Secretarial Assistant
10 November 2014

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.