DGE Diageo Plc

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 April 2013 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 directors of the Company were allocated Ordinary Shares on 10
April 2013 under the Plan, by Diageo Share Ownership Trustees Limited (the
"Trustee"):

Name of Director              Number of Ordinary Shares

D Mahlan                      10

PS Walsh                      9

(ii) the following Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR") were allocated Ordinary Shares on 10 April 2013 under the Plan, by the Trustee:

Name of PDMR                 Number of Ordinary Shares

N Blazquez                   10

D Gosnell                    9

J Grover                     9

A Morgan                     9

S Moriarty                   10

G Williams                   9

I Wright                     9

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 £19.77.

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 April 2013 that Dr FB Humer, a director of

    the Company, had purchased 419 Ordinary Shares on 10 April 2013 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 £19.77.

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                  46,048

D Mahlan                     132,207 (of which 131,583 are held as ADS)

PS Walsh                     604,632

Name of PDMR                 Number of Ordinary Shares

N Blazquez                   72,975

D Gosnell                    110,546

J Grover                     187,012

A Morgan                     142,976

S Moriarty                   28,741

G Williams                   176,441 (of which 6,493 are held as ADS)

I Wright                     56,296


J Nicholls
Deputy Company Secretary
10 April 2013

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.