Diageo plc - Voting Rights and Capital

In conformity with Paragraph 5.6.1 of the Disclosure Guidelines and Transparency Rules, Diageo plc (the "Company") would like to notify the market of the following:

The Company's issued capital as at 30 December 2016 consisted of 2,754,440,635 ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each ("Ordinary Shares"), with voting rights. 237,763,765 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 2,516,676,870 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.

3 January 2017

Victoria Cooper
Assistant Company Secretary
Diageo plc