Total Voting Rights

Diageo plc - Total Voting Rights and Capital

In conformity with 5.6 of the Disclosure Guidelines and Transparency Rules and Article 15 of the Transparency Directive, Diageo plc (the "Company") would like to notify the market of the following:

The Company's issued capital as at 30 April 2018 consisted of 2,695,580,726 ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each ("Ordinary Shares"), with voting rights. 235,137,082 Ordinary Shares were held in Treasury, in respect of which, voting rights were not exercised.

Therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company was 2,460,443,644 and this figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidelines and Transparency Rules.

30 April 2018

James Edmunds

Deputy Secretary
Diageo plc