Direct Line Insurance Group PLC

Transaction in Own Shares • Sep 1, 2021

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Direct Line Insurance Group PLC

01 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
31 August 2021	23,301	310.60	309.00	309.58	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 1,342,779,361 ordinary shares in issue. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in DLG will be 1,342,779,361. 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
31/08/2021	08:19:00	310.10	640	XLON	382905608054297
31/08/2021	08:36:03	310.20	528	XLON	382905608058674
31/08/2021	08:51:07	310.30	936	XLON	382905608061659
31/08/2021	09:09:41	310.00	85	XLON	382905608064765
31/08/2021	09:10:44	310.00	554	XLON	382905608064903
31/08/2021	09:21:55	309.70	799	XLON	382905608066582
31/08/2021	09:50:18	309.90	617	XLON	382905608070708
31/08/2021	10:06:03	310.00	745	XLON	382905608072776
31/08/2021	10:28:16	310.20	560	XLON	382905608075756
31/08/2021	10:39:07	310.10	786	XLON	382905608077215
31/08/2021	11:06:35	310.60	571	XLON	382905608080972
31/08/2021	11:20:55	310.50	118	XLON	382905608082653
31/08/2021	11:20:55	310.50	618	XLON	382905608082654
31/08/2021	11:29:05	310.10	642	XLON	382905608084196
31/08/2021	11:48:38	309.90	607	XLON	382905608087597
31/08/2021	12:03:05	309.90	679	XLON	382905608089933
31/08/2021	12:15:55	310.00	139	XLON	382905608091593
31/08/2021	12:26:12	310.00	934	XLON	382905608092899
31/08/2021	12:51:07	309.00	160	XLON	382905608096021
31/08/2021	12:56:47	309.00	192	XLON	382905608096701
31/08/2021	12:56:47	309.00	526	XLON	382905608096702
31/08/2021	13:21:04	309.00	563	XLON	382905608099452
31/08/2021	13:46:42	309.10	739	XLON	382905608103070
31/08/2021	14:16:56	309.10	557	XLON	382905608108546
31/08/2021	14:18:17	309.10	656	XLON	382905608108900
31/08/2021	14:32:18	309.10	847	XLON	382905608112742
31/08/2021	14:37:11	309.10	675	XLON	382905608114744
31/08/2021	14:50:13	309.00	647	XLON	382905608118201
31/08/2021	15:00:46	309.00	670	XLON	382905608121484
31/08/2021	15:13:30	309.40	653	XLON	382905608126122
31/08/2021	15:24:10	309.10	584	XLON	382905608128836
31/08/2021	15:37:31	309.20	504	XLON	382905608132676
31/08/2021	15:37:31	309.20	347	XLON	382905608132677
31/08/2021	15:50:15	309.30	589	XLON	382905608136191
31/08/2021	15:50:15	309.30	533	XLON	382905608136192
31/08/2021	15:59:12	309.10	650	XLON	382905608138563
31/08/2021	16:08:52	309.20	204	XLON	382905608141969
31/08/2021	16:11:30	309.20	653	XLON	382905608142766
31/08/2021	16:23:47	309.30	778	XLON	382905608147720
31/08/2021	16:28:00	309.30	363	XLON	382905608149698
31/08/2021	16:29:33	309.20	653	XLON	382905608150714

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

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