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Direct Line Insurance Group PLC

22 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       Highest         Lowest        Volume      Venue 
                      of shares    price paid:    price paid:     weighted 
                      purchased      (pence)        (pence)       average 
                                                                 price paid 
                                                                 per share 
                                                                  (pence) 
   21 September 
        2021           1,000         294.60         292.30        293.64       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 1,342,687,566 ordinary shares in issue. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in DLG will be 1,342,687,566. 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     Exchange   Reference number 
                                           purchased    Venue      of transaction 
 21/09/2021    08:46:27   292.30          91           XLON       395893589159961 
              ---------  --------------  -----------  ---------  ----------------- 
 21/09/2021    09:01:44   292.70          67           XLON       395893589162974 
              ---------  --------------  -----------  ---------  ----------------- 
 21/09/2021    10:11:12   292.80          83           XLON       395893589175537 
              ---------  --------------  -----------  ---------  ----------------- 
 21/09/2021    11:24:21   293.70          84           XLON       395893589186374 
              ---------  --------------  -----------  ---------  ----------------- 
 21/09/2021    11:57:45   293.60          88           XLON       395893589190097 
              ---------  --------------  -----------  ---------  ----------------- 
 21/09/2021    13:09:00   293.80          99           XLON       395893589201918 
              ---------  --------------  -----------  ---------  ----------------- 
 21/09/2021    13:45:47   294.40          98           XLON       395893589209236 
              ---------  --------------  -----------  ---------  ----------------- 
 21/09/2021    14:31:03   294.10          85           XLON       395893589220982 
              ---------  --------------  -----------  ---------  ----------------- 
 21/09/2021    15:00:13   294.60          112          XLON       395893589233767 
              ---------  --------------  -----------  ---------  ----------------- 
 21/09/2021    15:49:25   294.00          101          XLON       395893589250743 
              ---------  --------------  -----------  ---------  ----------------- 
 21/09/2021    16:17:15   293.30          58           XLON       395893589260837 
              ---------  --------------  -----------  ---------  ----------------- 
 21/09/2021    16:18:42   293.50          34           XLON       395893589261308 
              ---------  --------------  -----------  ---------  -----------------

This announcement does not constitute, or form part of, an offer or any solicitation of an offer for securities in any jurisdiction.

-- ENDS--

Roger Clifton

Company Secretary

Telephone: +44 (0)1651 831 956

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