Direct Line Insurance Group PLC

Transaction in Own Shares • Sep 8, 2021

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Direct Line Insurance Group PLC

08 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
07 September 2021	1,500	314.00	310.80	312.87	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 1,342,698,066 ordinary shares in issue. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in DLG will be 1,342,698,066. 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
07/09/2021	08:55:05	313.20	90	XLON	387234935088449
07/09/2021	10:07:02	313.90	127	XLON	387234935096703
07/09/2021	10:47:51	313.80	162	XLON	387234935101306
07/09/2021	11:37:01	313.70	187	XLON	387234935106503
07/09/2021	12:34:30	314.00	127	XLON	387234935111553
07/09/2021	13:16:33	313.40	142	XLON	387234935116137
07/09/2021	14:25:55	312.90	167	XLON	387234935124194
07/09/2021	14:50:10	312.40	120	XLON	387234935132834
07/09/2021	14:50:10	312.40	67	XLON	387234935132835
07/09/2021	16:02:57	311.00	203	XLON	387234935154471
07/09/2021	16:29:50	310.80	108	XLON	387234935163237

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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