Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 9198H

Direct Line Insurance Group PLC

09 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
6 August 2021	50,000	£ 308.10	£ 302.60	£ 306.66	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 1,347,776,329 ordinary shares in issue. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in DLG will be 1,347,776,329. 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
06/08/2021	08:35:32	£ 306.60	677	XLON	367443725788066
06/08/2021	08:35:32	£ 306.60	781	XLON	367443725788067
06/08/2021	08:49:20	£ 307.30	960	XLON	367443725790044
06/08/2021	08:49:20	£ 307.30	957	XLON	367443725790046
06/08/2021	09:08:21	£ 307.10	963	XLON	367443725792865
06/08/2021	09:15:54	£ 306.90	799	XLON	367443725793643
06/08/2021	09:29:19	£ 306.80	975	XLON	367443725795036
06/08/2021	09:38:18	£ 307.40	1,139	XLON	367443725796043
06/08/2021	09:42:57	£ 307.50	715	XLON	367443725796511
06/08/2021	10:04:47	£ 307.70	1,132	XLON	367443725799770
06/08/2021	10:12:17	£ 307.60	1,391	XLON	367443725800565
06/08/2021	10:22:48	£ 307.10	767	XLON	367443725801841
06/08/2021	10:33:37	£ 307.40	697	XLON	367443725803229
06/08/2021	10:40:13	£ 307.20	1,153	XLON	367443725804079
06/08/2021	10:56:47	£ 307.30	1,022	XLON	367443725805925
06/08/2021	11:08:07	£ 307.10	122	XLON	367443725807193
06/08/2021	11:08:07	£ 307.10	273	XLON	367443725807190
06/08/2021	11:08:27	£ 307.10	195	XLON	367443725807230
06/08/2021	11:08:27	£ 307.10	654	XLON	367443725807231
06/08/2021	11:21:00	£ 306.80	1,510	XLON	367443725808532
06/08/2021	11:26:45	£ 306.40	885	XLON	367443725809133
06/08/2021	11:44:00	£ 305.50	619	XLON	367443725810664
06/08/2021	11:52:40	£ 305.20	950	XLON	367443725811745
06/08/2021	11:55:40	£ 305.10	702	XLON	367443725811993
06/08/2021	12:02:34	£ 304.70	151	XLON	367443725813075
06/08/2021	12:08:13	£ 304.50	68	XLON	367443725813558
06/08/2021	12:08:13	£ 304.50	923	XLON	367443725813559
06/08/2021	12:15:02	£ 303.80	591	XLON	367443725814275
06/08/2021	12:31:39	£ 302.90	1,241	XLON	367443725815952
06/08/2021	12:31:39	£ 302.90	90	XLON	367443725815953
06/08/2021	12:38:52	£ 303.10	621	XLON	367443725816497
06/08/2021	12:41:06	£ 302.60	626	XLON	367443725816732
06/08/2021	12:41:06	£ 302.60	67	XLON	367443725816733
06/08/2021	12:51:31	£ 303.00	841	XLON	367443725818116
06/08/2021	13:00:42	£ 303.50	642	XLON	367443725819193
06/08/2021	13:05:43	£ 303.20	598	XLON	367443725819730
06/08/2021	13:05:43	£ 303.20	20	XLON	367443725819731
06/08/2021	13:21:30	£ 305.10	31	XLON	367443725821403
06/08/2021	13:21:35	£ 305.10	733	XLON	367443725821413
06/08/2021	13:23:56	£ 305.50	590	XLON	367443725821709
06/08/2021	13:23:56	£ 305.50	126	XLON	367443725821710
06/08/2021	13:31:34	£ 306.30	635	XLON	367443725823466
06/08/2021	13:43:35	£ 306.80	713	XLON	367443725825798
06/08/2021	13:55:57	£ 306.60	1,093	XLON	367443725828167
06/08/2021	14:02:14	£ 307.40	781	XLON	367443725829261
06/08/2021	14:13:15	£ 306.90	940	XLON	367443725831078
06/08/2021	14:25:50	£ 307.50	685	XLON	367443725833426
06/08/2021	14:25:50	£ 307.40	844	XLON	367443725833432
06/08/2021	14:33:50	£ 307.30	804	XLON	367443725836336
06/08/2021	14:43:25	£ 307.40	1,157	XLON	367443725840045
06/08/2021	14:48:30	£ 307.40	407	XLON	367443725841631
06/08/2021	14:48:30	£ 307.40	507	XLON	367443725841632
06/08/2021	14:52:16	£ 307.50	611	XLON	367443725842847
06/08/2021	14:59:56	£ 307.90	642	XLON	367443725845161
06/08/2021	15:06:46	£ 307.90	479	XLON	367443725847918
06/08/2021	15:08:06	£ 307.90	610	XLON	367443725848367
06/08/2021	15:10:11	£ 307.60	736	XLON	367443725848931
06/08/2021	15:14:59	£ 307.80	14	XLON	367443725850191
06/08/2021	15:14:59	£ 307.80	651	XLON	367443725850192
06/08/2021	15:19:35	£ 307.60	659	XLON	367443725851620
06/08/2021	15:21:04	£ 307.60	366	XLON	367443725852068
06/08/2021	15:25:56	£ 307.80	643	XLON	367443725853713
06/08/2021	15:30:08	£ 307.70	523	XLON	367443725854824
06/08/2021	15:30:08	£ 307.70	549	XLON	367443725854825
06/08/2021	15:34:24	£ 307.60	166	XLON	367443725856100
06/08/2021	15:40:53	£ 307.60	2,330	XLON	367443725857903
06/08/2021	15:45:56	£ 307.60	37	XLON	367443725859193
06/08/2021	15:45:56	£ 307.60	651	XLON	367443725859194
06/08/2021	15:53:57	£ 307.60	822	XLON	367443725861340
06/08/2021	16:01:32	£ 308.00	395	XLON	367443725863547
06/08/2021	16:03:57	£ 307.90	620	XLON	367443725864336
06/08/2021	16:11:29	£ 308.00	755	XLON	367443725866283
06/08/2021	16:16:11	£ 308.10	611	XLON	367443725867735
06/08/2021	16:18:34	£ 307.80	35	XLON	367443725868690
06/08/2021	16:18:34	£ 307.80	88	XLON	367443725868691
06/08/2021	16:18:34	£ 307.80	444	XLON	367443725868692

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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