TO:      Regulatory Information Service                                        
                                                                               
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RE:      Paragraph 5.6.1 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules

Diageo plc - Voting Rights and Capital

With reference to Paragraph 5.6.1 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules Diageo plc (the "Company") would like to notify the market of the following:

The Company's issued capital consists of 2,754,039,285 ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each ("Ordinary Shares") with voting rights, which includes 253,871,995 Ordinary Shares held in Treasury.

Therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company is 2,500,167,290 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 FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.



J Nicholls

Deputy Company Secretary

3 January 2012