Direct Line Insurance Group PLC

Transaction in Own Shares • Sep 27, 2021

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Direct Line Insurance Group PLC

27 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
24 September 2021	962	290.50	288.20	289.19	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 1,342,684,604 ordinary shares in issue. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in DLG will be 1,342,684,604. 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
24/09/2021	09:17:37	289.60	11	XLON	397749015038371
24/09/2021	09:18:51	290.00	48	XLON	397749015038553
24/09/2021	09:41:01	290.50	70	XLON	397749015041681
24/09/2021	10:23:18	290.20	81	XLON	397749015047495
24/09/2021	11:32:33	288.90	86	XLON	397749015056349
24/09/2021	12:12:18	289.00	88	XLON	397749015060322
24/09/2021	13:22:30	289.10	106	XLON	397749015069001
24/09/2021	14:10:45	288.20	103	XLON	397749015075540
24/09/2021	14:42:02	288.60	100	XLON	397749015084796
24/09/2021	15:11:52	288.40	100	XLON	397749015095565
24/09/2021	15:56:02	289.40	108	XLON	397749015109310
24/09/2021	16:17:19	290.00	61	XLON	397749015115374

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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