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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549
 
FORM 6-K
 
REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER
PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16 OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
 
21 September 2017
 
Commission File Number:  001-10691
 
DIAGEO plc
(Translation of registrant’s name into English)
 
 
Lakeside Drive, Park Royal, London NW10 7HQ
(Address of principal executive offices)
 
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover Form 20-F or Form 40-F.
 
Form 20-F   X                                                                  Form 40-F  
 
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(1):   
 
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(7):   
 
TO:
 
Regulatory Information Service
 
RE:
 
CHAPTER 9 PARAGRAPHS 9.6.3(1) and 9.6.18 OF
THE LISTING RULES
 
 
 Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that:
 
1.
 
in accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.3 (1), copies of the resolutions (other than those resolutions comprising ordinary business) passed by the Company at its Annual General Meeting ('AGM') held on 20 September 2017 have been uploaded to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do
2.
    voting on the resolutions put to the Company's AGM was as follows (all the resolutions were passed):
 
 
 
VOTES FOR
%*
VOTES AGAINST
%*
VOTES WITHHELD**
1) Report and Accounts
1,958,571,162
99.70
5,794,986
0.30
18,441,398
2) Directors' Remuneration Report
1,915,370,899
97.22
54,745,724
2.78
12,690,154
3) Directors' Remuneration Policy
1,905,251,510
96.19
75,507,013
3.81
2,048,247
4) Final Dividend
1,981,742,644
99.99
273,999
0.01
789,981
5) Re-election of PB Bruzelius
1,973,532,772
99.89
2,220,707
0.11
7,053,145
6) Re-election of Lord Davies
1,967,235,676
99.57
8,519,122
0.43
7,051,833
7) Re-election of J Ferrán
1,964,253,132
99.12
17,526,131
0.88
1,027,368
8) Re-election of Ho KwonPing
1,854,107,434
93.98
118,831,276
6.02
9,867,921
9) Re-election of BD Holden
1,979,083,549
99.86
2,755,067
0.14
968,015
10) Re-election of NS Mendelsohn
1,980,445,358
99.94
1,215,260
0.06
1,146,013
11) Re-election of IM Menezes
1,980,941,490
99.96
863,949
0.04
1,001,192
12) Re-election of KA Mikells
1,964,648,715
99.14
17,130,099
0.86
1,027,817
13) Re-election of AJH Stewart
1,979,524,219
99.89
2,258,443
0.11
1,023,969
14) Re-appointment of Auditor
1,965,261,038
99.15
16,784,488
0.85
761,105
15) Remuneration of auditor
1,967,388,727
99.27
14,505,656
0.73
911,971
16) Authority to allot shares
1,954,361,007
98.64
27,040,866
1.36
1,404,750
17) Disapplication of pre-emption rights
1,964,232,954
99.15
16,782,975
0.85
1,787,548
18) Authority to purchase own ordinary shares
1,951,867,737
98.59
27,914,923
1.41
3,023,964
19) Authority to make political donations and/or to incur political  expenditure in the EU**
1,919,454,738
97.21
55,181,875
2.79
8,169,288
20) Adoption of Diageo 2017 Share Value Plan**
1,859,608,157
93.87
121,449,532
6.13
1,745,482
 
 
J Guttridge
Company Secretarial Assistant
 
21 September 2017
 
 
Notes
 
*As a percentage of the aggregate of votes For plus votes Against (excluding votes Withheld).
 
**Resolutions other than those concerning ordinary business.
 
 
 
SIGNATURE
 
 
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
 
 
 
 
 
 Diageo plc
 
 (Registrant)
 
 
Date: 21 September 2017
 By: /s/John Nicholls
 
 Name: John Nicholls
 
 Title: Deputy Company Secretary