Direct Line Insurance Group PLC

Transaction in Own Shares • Sep 21, 2021

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Direct Line Insurance Group PLC

21 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
20 September 2021	1,000	298.90	290.50	294.37	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 1,342,688,566 ordinary shares in issue. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in DLG will be 1,342,688,566. 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
20/09/2021	08:41:44	298.90	54	XLON	395281556327964
20/09/2021	08:49:32	298.90	64	XLON	395281556330015
20/09/2021	09:53:27	297.70	94	XLON	395281556345695
20/09/2021	10:46:25	296.00	88	XLON	395281556358006
20/09/2021	11:42:43	295.60	88	XLON	395281556369694
20/09/2021	12:32:21	295.10	93	XLON	395281556380548
20/09/2021	13:35:07	293.80	102	XLON	395281556396859
20/09/2021	14:25:18	292.40	97	XLON	395281556409493
20/09/2021	14:46:14	292.40	90	XLON	395281556423844
20/09/2021	15:32:27	291.70	120	XLON	395281556446477
20/09/2021	16:06:25	290.50	76	XLON	395281556460630
20/09/2021	16:18:46	290.70	34	XLON	395281556465812

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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