Direct Line Insurance Group PLC Transaction in Own Shares (1844L)

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RNS Number : 1844L

Direct Line Insurance Group PLC

09 September 2021

DIRECT LINE INSURANCE GROUP PLC

TRANSACTIONS IN OWN SHARES

Direct Line Insurance Group plc ("DLG") announces today that it has purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of 10 10/11 pence each on the London Stock Exchange from Goldman Sachs International. Such purchase was effected pursuant to instructions issued by DLG on 3 August 2021, as announced on 4 August 2021:

 
 Date of purchase      Number       Highest         Lowest        Volume      Venue 
                      of shares    price paid:    price paid:     weighted 
                      purchased      (pence)        (pence)       average 
                                                                 price paid 
                                                                 per share 
                                                                  (pence) 
   08 September 
        2021           1,500         308.50         305.70        307.11       LSE 
                    -----------  -------------  -------------  ------------  ------ 
 

DLG will cancel the purchased shares.

Following the cancellation of the repurchased shares, DLG will hold no ordinary shares in treasury and will have 1,342,696,566 ordinary shares in issue. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in DLG will be 1,342,696,566. This is the figure which should be used by shareholders as the denominator when determining whether they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in DLG, under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (as incorporated into UK domestic law by the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018), a full breakdown of the individual trades by Goldman Sachs is detailed below:

 
 Date          Time       Price (pence)   Quantity     Exchange   Reference number 
                                           purchased    Venue      of transaction 
 08/09/2021    08:58:47   307.00          113          XLON       387853410385594 
              ---------  --------------  -----------  ---------  ----------------- 
 08/09/2021    09:35:23   305.70          99           XLON       387853410393473 
              ---------  --------------  -----------  ---------  ----------------- 
 08/09/2021    10:06:10   305.90          141          XLON       387853410399466 
              ---------  --------------  -----------  ---------  ----------------- 
 08/09/2021    10:55:54   305.90          140          XLON       387853410407805 
              ---------  --------------  -----------  ---------  ----------------- 
 08/09/2021    12:00:42   306.90          145          XLON       387853410416824 
              ---------  --------------  -----------  ---------  ----------------- 
 08/09/2021    13:11:33   306.90          125          XLON       387853410425139 
              ---------  --------------  -----------  ---------  ----------------- 
 08/09/2021    14:01:43   306.90          138          XLON       387853410433276 
              ---------  --------------  -----------  ---------  ----------------- 
 08/09/2021    14:32:06   307.70          147          XLON       387853410439731 
              ---------  --------------  -----------  ---------  ----------------- 
 08/09/2021    15:11:28   308.50          185          XLON       387853410454299 
              ---------  --------------  -----------  ---------  ----------------- 
 08/09/2021    16:02:01   308.10          144          XLON       387853410472260 
              ---------  --------------  -----------  ---------  ----------------- 
 08/09/2021    16:29:53   307.80          123          XLON       387853410484551 
              ---------  --------------  -----------  ---------  ----------------- 
 

This announcement does not constitute, or form part of, an offer or any solicitation of an offer for securities in any jurisdiction.

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Roger Clifton

Company Secretary

Telephone: [phone]

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