Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 7742H

Direct Line Insurance Group PLC

06 August 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
5 August 2021	52,195	£ 309.20	£ 305.40	£ 307.49	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 1,347,826,329 ordinary shares in issue. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in DLG will be 1,347,826,329. 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
05/08/2021	09:55:18	£ 307.60	628	XLON	366825250505977
05/08/2021	09:57:50	£ 307.40	1,120	XLON	366825250506184
05/08/2021	10:00:13	£ 307.30	515	XLON	366825250506411
05/08/2021	10:00:13	£ 307.30	132	XLON	366825250506412
05/08/2021	10:19:44	£ 307.40	253	XLON	366825250508617
05/08/2021	10:19:44	£ 307.40	120	XLON	366825250508618
05/08/2021	10:28:28	£ 307.70	122	XLON	366825250510100
05/08/2021	10:28:28	£ 307.70	1,226	XLON	366825250510101
05/08/2021	10:31:14	£ 307.90	1,460	XLON	366825250510470
05/08/2021	10:31:14	£ 307.90	624	XLON	366825250510473
05/08/2021	10:36:04	£ 308.10	980	XLON	366825250511075
05/08/2021	10:40:06	£ 308.20	780	XLON	366825250511466
05/08/2021	11:03:29	£ 309.00	861	XLON	366825250514671
05/08/2021	11:12:05	£ 309.20	570	XLON	366825250515567
05/08/2021	11:13:11	£ 309.20	655	XLON	366825250515687
05/08/2021	11:13:20	£ 309.10	21	XLON	366825250515700
05/08/2021	11:13:20	£ 309.10	931	XLON	366825250515701
05/08/2021	11:13:20	£ 309.10	658	XLON	366825250515702
05/08/2021	11:31:26	£ 309.10	656	XLON	366825250517800
05/08/2021	11:31:26	£ 309.10	1,200	XLON	366825250517801
05/08/2021	11:31:26	£ 309.10	82	XLON	366825250517802
05/08/2021	11:39:53	£ 308.90	1,391	XLON	366825250518455
05/08/2021	11:47:24	£ 308.90	621	XLON	366825250519134
05/08/2021	11:53:14	£ 308.40	578	XLON	366825250519751
05/08/2021	11:58:58	£ 308.20	850	XLON	366825250520401
05/08/2021	12:01:45	£ 308.10	631	XLON	366825250520959
05/08/2021	12:01:45	£ 308.10	29	XLON	366825250520960
05/08/2021	12:26:50	£ 308.20	900	XLON	366825250523780
05/08/2021	12:26:50	£ 308.20	385	XLON	366825250523781
05/08/2021	12:34:26	£ 308.20	433	XLON	366825250524654
05/08/2021	12:36:28	£ 308.20	319	XLON	366825250524940
05/08/2021	12:36:28	£ 308.20	751	XLON	366825250524943
05/08/2021	12:37:10	£ 308.20	658	XLON	366825250525001
05/08/2021	12:46:26	£ 308.20	610	XLON	366825250526044
05/08/2021	12:46:26	£ 308.20	72	XLON	366825250526045
05/08/2021	12:46:27	£ 308.20	719	XLON	366825250526047
05/08/2021	13:08:33	£ 307.90	113	XLON	366825250528596
05/08/2021	13:08:33	£ 307.90	32	XLON	366825250528597
05/08/2021	13:08:33	£ 307.90	685	XLON	366825250528598
05/08/2021	13:11:03	£ 307.90	1,253	XLON	366825250528849
05/08/2021	13:16:02	£ 307.60	993	XLON	366825250529418
05/08/2021	13:42:38	£ 307.70	830	XLON	366825250532549
05/08/2021	13:42:38	£ 307.70	331	XLON	366825250532550
05/08/2021	13:45:44	£ 307.70	826	XLON	366825250532885
05/08/2021	13:45:44	£ 307.70	76	XLON	366825250532886
05/08/2021	13:58:34	£ 308.10	302	XLON	366825250534414
05/08/2021	13:58:34	£ 308.10	288	XLON	366825250534415
05/08/2021	13:58:52	£ 308.10	487	XLON	366825250534435
05/08/2021	13:58:52	£ 308.10	765	XLON	366825250534436
05/08/2021	14:04:21	£ 307.90	640	XLON	366825250535240
05/08/2021	14:10:42	£ 307.80	573	XLON	366825250536083
05/08/2021	14:17:11	£ 307.50	1,086	XLON	366825250536948
05/08/2021	14:21:56	£ 305.90	573	XLON	366825250537572
05/08/2021	14:34:51	£ 305.40	1,300	XLON	366825250541841
05/08/2021	14:36:02	£ 305.50	972	XLON	366825250542241
05/08/2021	14:46:47	£ 306.20	1,390	XLON	366825250545688
05/08/2021	14:47:57	£ 306.10	635	XLON	366825250546000
05/08/2021	14:53:26	£ 306.60	939	XLON	366825250548043
05/08/2021	14:57:31	£ 306.50	623	XLON	366825250549902
05/08/2021	15:00:53	£ 306.50	681	XLON	366825250550759
05/08/2021	15:05:22	£ 306.60	648	XLON	366825250552322
05/08/2021	15:07:55	£ 306.70	603	XLON	366825250553338
05/08/2021	15:10:06	£ 306.70	677	XLON	366825250553950
05/08/2021	15:20:11	£ 307.00	815	XLON	366825250557198
05/08/2021	15:20:11	£ 307.00	957	XLON	366825250557201
05/08/2021	15:34:36	£ 307.20	571	XLON	366825250561236
05/08/2021	15:35:43	£ 307.20	950	XLON	366825250561760
05/08/2021	15:35:43	£ 307.20	457	XLON	366825250561761
05/08/2021	15:36:06	£ 307.10	897	XLON	366825250561866
05/08/2021	15:39:32	£ 307.00	597	XLON	366825250562852
05/08/2021	15:47:13	£ 306.40	570	XLON	366825250565638
05/08/2021	15:49:29	£ 306.30	228	XLON	366825250566267
05/08/2021	15:49:29	£ 306.30	1,367	XLON	366825250566268
05/08/2021	15:57:21	£ 306.20	625	XLON	366825250568373
05/08/2021	15:59:26	£ 306.20	612	XLON	366825250568943
05/08/2021	16:06:22	£ 306.10	888	XLON	366825250570855
05/08/2021	16:11:00	£ 306.10	871	XLON	366825250572350
05/08/2021	16:16:50	£ 306.10	928	XLON	366825250573962

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: [phone]

 

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