TO:      Regulatory Information Service                                    
                                                                           
         PR Newswire                                                       
                                                                           
RE:      Paragraph 3.1.4 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules          

The notification listed below was received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the
Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that it received notification on 29
December 2009 that Nick Rose, a director, exercised an option on 29 December
2009 over 243,951 ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company
("Ordinary Shares") granted on 19 September 2006 at a price per share of £9.30
under the Company's Senior Executive Share Option Plan.

Mr Rose subsequently sold 241,511 Ordinary Shares on 29 December, at a price
per share of £10.8625. Mr Rose retains the balance of 2,440 Ordinary Shares.

As a result of the above transaction the interests of Mr Rose in the Company's
Ordinary Shares (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and
interests as a potential beneficiary of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts)
has increased to 472,766.

P D Tunnacliffe

Company Secretary

30 December 2009