Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 2204I

Direct Line Insurance Group PLC

11 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
10 August 2021	49,566	£ 316.20	£ 313.40	£ 314.79	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 1,347,691,708 ordinary shares in issue. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in DLG will be 1,347,691,708. 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
10/08/2021	08:58:52	£ 313.50	895	XLON	369917626951674
10/08/2021	08:58:52	£ 313.50	709	XLON	369917626951675
10/08/2021	09:05:25	£ 313.70	819	XLON	369917626952547
10/08/2021	09:07:02	£ 313.60	573	XLON	369917626952744
10/08/2021	09:07:36	£ 313.40	571	XLON	369917626952862
10/08/2021	09:32:35	£ 314.10	647	XLON	369917626956226
10/08/2021	09:32:35	£ 314.20	606	XLON	369917626956220
10/08/2021	09:40:02	£ 314.70	616	XLON	369917626957181
10/08/2021	09:52:04	£ 314.40	1,183	XLON	369917626958598
10/08/2021	10:01:02	£ 314.20	786	XLON	369917626959774
10/08/2021	10:14:06	£ 314.30	717	XLON	369917626961676
10/08/2021	10:14:06	£ 314.30	676	XLON	369917626961672
10/08/2021	10:33:01	£ 314.70	1,792	XLON	369917626963753
10/08/2021	10:39:36	£ 314.30	610	XLON	369917626964564
10/08/2021	10:45:41	£ 314.90	876	XLON	369917626965253
10/08/2021	10:56:17	£ 314.20	811	XLON	369917626966494
10/08/2021	11:12:52	£ 314.30	1,000	XLON	369917626968178
10/08/2021	11:12:52	£ 314.30	1,396	XLON	369917626968179
10/08/2021	11:27:35	£ 314.80	676	XLON	369917626969718
10/08/2021	11:38:26	£ 314.60	898	XLON	369917626970807
10/08/2021	11:45:21	£ 314.80	521	XLON	369917626971637
10/08/2021	11:45:21	£ 314.80	105	XLON	369917626971638
10/08/2021	11:55:17	£ 314.80	692	XLON	369917626972609
10/08/2021	12:02:00	£ 314.80	962	XLON	369917626973329
10/08/2021	12:07:24	£ 314.60	636	XLON	369917626974069
10/08/2021	12:17:27	£ 314.60	588	XLON	369917626975044
10/08/2021	12:27:04	£ 314.20	698	XLON	369917626976149
10/08/2021	12:45:03	£ 314.50	956	XLON	369917626977665
10/08/2021	12:45:03	£ 314.50	723	XLON	369917626977661
10/08/2021	12:51:37	£ 314.50	252	XLON	369917626978235
10/08/2021	12:51:37	£ 314.50	288	XLON	369917626978236
10/08/2021	12:51:37	£ 314.50	167	XLON	369917626978237
10/08/2021	12:58:27	£ 314.50	23	XLON	369917626978942
10/08/2021	12:58:27	£ 314.50	990	XLON	369917626978943
10/08/2021	13:01:02	£ 313.90	177	XLON	369917626979287
10/08/2021	13:11:35	£ 314.40	596	XLON	369917626980426
10/08/2021	13:29:10	£ 314.40	1,888	XLON	369917626982219
10/08/2021	13:36:25	£ 314.40	962	XLON	369917626983065
10/08/2021	13:50:31	£ 314.40	649	XLON	369917626984894
10/08/2021	13:57:30	£ 314.30	874	XLON	369917626985524
10/08/2021	14:02:31	£ 314.20	573	XLON	369917626986315
10/08/2021	14:09:55	£ 314.20	16	XLON	369917626987307
10/08/2021	14:09:55	£ 314.20	861	XLON	369917626987308
10/08/2021	14:17:00	£ 314.00	614	XLON	369917626988177
10/08/2021	14:21:12	£ 313.80	626	XLON	369917626988834
10/08/2021	14:32:15	£ 314.80	927	XLON	369917626991636
10/08/2021	14:32:29	£ 314.80	993	XLON	369917626991732
10/08/2021	14:36:05	£ 314.70	591	XLON	369917626993417
10/08/2021	14:54:05	£ 316.20	615	XLON	369917626998658
10/08/2021	14:55:45	£ 316.20	1,760	XLON	369917626999098
10/08/2021	14:57:52	£ 315.50	695	XLON	369917626999784
10/08/2021	15:15:59	£ 315.60	566	XLON	369917627005280
10/08/2021	15:18:56	£ 315.50	697	XLON	369917627005972
10/08/2021	15:18:56	£ 315.50	903	XLON	369917627005973
10/08/2021	15:24:27	£ 315.40	1,680	XLON	369917627007469
10/08/2021	15:31:30	£ 315.80	436	XLON	369917627009577
10/08/2021	15:31:30	£ 315.80	220	XLON	369917627009578
10/08/2021	15:37:37	£ 315.70	990	XLON	369917627011638
10/08/2021	15:37:37	£ 315.70	571	XLON	369917627011639
10/08/2021	15:53:32	£ 315.90	1,142	XLON	369917627016490
10/08/2021	15:57:02	£ 315.90	1,045	XLON	369917627017382
10/08/2021	15:57:02	£ 315.80	859	XLON	369917627017395
10/08/2021	16:05:19	£ 316.10	824	XLON	369917627019638
10/08/2021	16:10:37	£ 316.00	227	XLON	369917627021029
10/08/2021	16:10:37	£ 316.00	775	XLON	369917627021030
10/08/2021	16:17:08	£ 316.00	548	XLON	369917627022638
10/08/2021	16:17:08	£ 316.00	208	XLON	369917627022639

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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