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 it received notification on 29 May
    that:

     1. Nicola Mendelsohn, a director of the Company, had purchased 5,000 ordinary
        shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") on 28
        May 2015 at a price per ordinary share of £18.39. The Ordinary Shares were
        purchased on the London Stock Exchange; and
     2. Ho KwonPing, a director of the Company, had received 74 Ordinary Shares on
        2 October 2014 and 46 Ordinary Shares on 7 April 2015, as a participant in
        the Diageo Dividend Reinvestment Plan. The Ordinary Shares were purchased
        on the London Stock Exchange.

    As a result of the above transactions, interests of the above directors in the
    Company's Ordinary Shares (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs
    and interests as potential beneficiaries of the Company's Employee Benefit
    Trusts) have increased as follows:

    Name of Director           Number of Ordinary Shares           
                                                                   
    Ho KwonPing                4,223                               
    Nicola Mendelsohn          5,000                               
                                                                   

    J Fahey

    Senior Company Secretarial Assistant

    29 May 2015