Direct Line Insurance Group PLC

Transaction in Own Shares • Sep 7, 2021

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Direct Line Insurance Group PLC

07 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 of shares purchased	Highest price paid: (pence)	Lowest price paid: (pence)	Volume  weighted average price paid per share (pence)	Venue
06 September 2021	4,795	315.20	313.20	314.32	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 1,342,699,566 ordinary shares in issue. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in DLG will be 1,342,699,566. 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 purchased	Exchange Venue	Reference number of transaction
06/09/2021	08:50:19	315.20	113	XLON	386644377084186
06/09/2021	08:50:19	315.20	68	XLON	386644377084187
06/09/2021	09:19:34	314.40	173	XLON	386644377086848
06/09/2021	09:43:58	314.30	235	XLON	386644377088990
06/09/2021	10:13:55	314.40	100	XLON	386644377091623
06/09/2021	10:13:55	314.40	247	XLON	386644377091624
06/09/2021	10:34:50	314.90	289	XLON	386644377093968
06/09/2021	11:06:21	315.00	268	XLON	386644377096975
06/09/2021	11:39:46	315.00	263	XLON	386644377099967
06/09/2021	12:22:31	314.20	269	XLON	386644377103753
06/09/2021	12:41:26	314.70	267	XLON	386644377105077
06/09/2021	13:08:41	314.90	263	XLON	386644377107624
06/09/2021	13:41:47	314.80	247	XLON	386644377111501
06/09/2021	14:18:39	314.10	318	XLON	386644377115515
06/09/2021	14:34:42	313.90	324	XLON	386644377117745
06/09/2021	14:50:28	314.30	127	XLON	386644377120024
06/09/2021	14:50:28	314.30	153	XLON	386644377120025
06/09/2021	15:09:03	314.00	253	XLON	386644377122874
06/09/2021	15:29:28	313.60	276	XLON	386644377126000
06/09/2021	16:08:19	313.20	93	XLON	386644377132288
06/09/2021	16:08:19	313.20	245	XLON	386644377132289
06/09/2021	16:23:49	313.40	204	XLON	386644377136091

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: +44 (0)1651 831 956

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