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Marshall Wace LLP

12 May 2025

FORM 8 (DD)

PUBLIC DEALING DISCLOSURE BY A PARTY TO AN OFFER OR PERSON ACTING IN CONCERT (INCLUDING DEALINGS FOR THE ACCOUNT OF DISCRETIONARY INVESTMENT CLIENTS)

Rules 8.1, 8.2 and 8.4 of the Takeover Code (the "Code")

1. KEY INFORMATION

(a) Full name of discloser:	Marshall Wace LLP
(b) Owner or controller of interests and short positions disclosed, if different from 1(a): The naming of nominee or vehicle companies is insufficient. For a trust, the trustee(s), settlor and beneficiaries must be named.
(c) Name of offeror/offeree in relation to whose relevant securities this form relates: Use a separate form for each offeror/offeree	Primary Health Properties plc (as securities exchange offeror to Assura plc)
(d) Status of person making the disclosure: e.g. offeror, offeree, person acting in concert with the offeror/offeree (specify name of offeror/offeree)	Person acting in concert with Sana Bidco Limited (as offeror to Assura plc)
(e) Date dealing undertaken:	06 May 2025, in addition Marshall Wace LLP have dealt on additional dates in the offer period as shown at the bottom of this form
(f) In addition to the company in 1(c) above, is the discloser making disclosures in respect of any other party to the offer? If it is a cash offer or possible cash offer, state "N/A"	N/A

2. POSITIONS OF THE PERSON MAKING THE DISCLOSURE

If there are positions or rights to subscribe to disclose in more than one class of relevant securities of the offeror or offeree named in 1(c), copy table 2(a) or (b) (as appropriate) for each additional class of relevant security.

(a) Interests and short positions in the relevant securities of the offeror or offeree to which the disclosure relates following the dealing

Class of relevant security:	12.5p ordinary
	Interests		Short positions
	Number	%	Number	%
(1) Relevant securities owned and/or controlled:	0	0.00	0	0.00
(2) Cash-settled derivatives:	0	0.00	569,278	0.04
(3) Stock-settled derivatives (including options) and agreements to purchase/sell:	0	0.00	0	0.00
TOTAL:	0	0.00	569,278	0.04

All interests and all short positions should be disclosed.

Details of any open stock-settled derivative positions (including traded options), or agreements to purchase or sell relevant securities, should be given on a Supplemental Form 8 (Open Positions).

Details of any securities borrowing and lending positions or financial collateral arrangements should be disclosed on a Supplemental Form 8 (SBL).

(b) Rights to subscribe for new securities (including directors' and other employee options)

Class of relevant security in relation to which subscription right exists:
Details, including nature of the rights concerned and relevant percentages:

3. DEALINGS BY THE PERSON MAKING THE DISCLOSURE

Where there have been dealings in more than one class of relevant securities of the offeror or offeree named in 1(c), copy table 3(a), (b), (c) or (d) (as appropriate) for each additional class of relevant security dealt in.

The currency of all prices and other monetary amounts should be stated.

(a) Purchases and sales

(i) Party to an offer or person acting in concert (except for a principal trader in the same group as a connected adviser)

Class of relevant security

Purchase/sale

Number of securities

Price per unit

(ii) Principal trader where the sole reason for the connection is that the principal trader is in the same group as a connected adviser

Class of relevant security

Purchases/ sales

Total number of securities

Highest price per unit paid/received

Lowest price per unit paid/received

(b) Cash-settled derivative transactions

Class of relevant security	Product description e.g. CFD	Nature of dealing e.g. opening/closing a long/short position, increasing/reducing a long/short position	Number of reference securities	Price per unit
Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	76	GBP 1.0195
Ordinary shares	CFD	Reducing a short position	76	GBP 1.0195
Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	17,172	GBP 1.034
Ordinary shares	CFD	Reducing a short position	17,172	GBP 1.034
Ordinary shares	CFD	Reducing a short position	8,966	GBP 1.030238
Ordinary shares	CFD	Reducing a short position	7,731	GBP 1.019269
Ordinary shares	CFD	Reducing a short position	4,263	GBP 1.0325
Ordinary shares	CFD	Reducing a short position	41,957	GBP 1.031977
Ordinary shares	CFD	Reducing a short position	16,795	GBP 1.031955
Ordinary shares	CFD	Reducing a short position	31,452	GBP 1.029806
Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	67,798	GBP 1.0345
Ordinary shares	CFD	Reducing a short position	67,798	GBP 1.0345
Ordinary shares	CFD	Reducing a short position	23,201	GBP 1.032382
Ordinary shares	CFD	Reducing a short position	14,072	GBP 1.035

(i) Writing, selling, purchasing or varying

Class of relevant security

Product description e.g. call option

Writing, purchasing, selling, varying etc.

Number of securities to which option relates

Exercise price per unit

Type

e.g. American, European etc.

Expiry date

Option money paid/ received per unit

(ii) Exercise

Class of relevant security

Product description

e.g. call option

Exercising/ exercised against

Number of securities

Exercise price per unit

(d) Other dealings (including subscribing for new securities)

Class of relevant security

Nature of dealing

e.g. subscription, conversion

Details

Price per unit (if applicable)

4. OTHER INFORMATION

(a) Indemnity and other dealing arrangements

Details of any indemnity or option arrangement, or any agreement or understanding, formal or informal, relating to relevant securities which may be an inducement to deal or refrain from dealing entered into by the party to the offer or person acting in concert making the disclosure and any other person:

Irrevocable commitments and letters of intent should not be included. If there are no such agreements, arrangements or understandings, state "none"

none

(b) Agreements, arrangements or understandings relating to options or derivatives

Details of any agreement, arrangement or understanding, formal or informal, between the party to the offer or person acting in concert making the disclosure and any other person relating to:

(i) the voting rights of any relevant securities under any option; or

(ii) the voting rights or future acquisition or disposal of any relevant securities to which any derivative is referenced:

If there are no such agreements, arrangements or understandings, state "none"

none

Are any Supplemental Forms attached?

Supplemental Form 8 (Open Positions)	NO
Supplemental Form 8 (SBL)	NO

Date of disclosure:	12 May 2025
Contact name:	Ben Trout
Telephone number:	0207 316 2279

Date of dealing	Class of relevant security	Product description e.g. CFD	Nature of dealing e.g. opening/closing a long/short position, increasing/reducing a long/short position	Number of reference securities	Price per unit
24/03/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Opening a short position	1,500	GBP 0.9615
24/03/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	8,137	GBP 0.958
24/03/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	1,285	GBP 0.953604
24/03/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	1,149	GBP 0.957
24/03/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	45,062	GBP 0.959536
24/03/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	11,340	GBP 0.9525
25/03/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Reducing a short position	2,000	GBP 0.9565
25/03/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Reducing a short position	10,056	GBP 0.957117
25/03/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Reducing a short position	17,951	GBP 0.95512
25/03/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Reducing a short position	9,984	GBP 0.955056
25/03/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Reducing a short position	19,929	GBP 0.952
26/03/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Closing a short position	8,553	GBP 0.954609
27/03/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Opening a short position	5,000	GBP 0.937
27/03/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	7,658	GBP 0.9365
27/03/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	2,918	GBP 0.936012
27/03/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	21,559	GBP 0.93357
27/03/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	4,938	GBP 0.937097
27/03/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	662	GBP 0.933
27/03/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	25,746	GBP 0.935479
27/03/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	16,921	GBP 0.9325
28/03/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	1,993	GBP 0.94625
28/03/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	4,187	GBP 0.94418
28/03/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	36,206	GBP 0.946185
28/03/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	2,921	GBP 0.944671
28/03/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	10,302	GBP 0.945
28/03/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	8,707	GBP 0.944226
28/03/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	16,168	GBP 0.944298
28/03/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	72,478	GBP 0.944642
28/03/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	31,733	GBP 0.946066
28/03/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	23,894	GBP 0.944882
28/03/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	177,010	GBP 0.948
31/03/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	84	GBP 0.94825
31/03/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Reducing a short position	84	GBP 0.94825
31/03/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	2,547	GBP 0.944965
31/03/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	6,300	GBP 0.944
31/03/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	25,000	GBP 0.9438
31/03/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	1,681	GBP 0.943
31/03/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	20,840	GBP 0.94701
31/03/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	2,900	GBP 0.947858
31/03/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	4,366	GBP 0.944193
31/03/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	9,817	GBP 0.941297
31/03/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	37,429	GBP 0.938
01/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	3,776	GBP 0.941841
01/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	523	GBP 0.940229
01/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	9,869	GBP 0.94125
01/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	4,482	GBP 0.941411
01/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	9,610	GBP 0.941733
01/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	20,000	GBP 0.939
01/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	12,072	GBP 0.940561
02/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Reducing a short position	57,511	GBP 0.93579
03/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Reducing a short position	201,617	GBP 0.967752
07/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	667	GBP 0.9275
07/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Reducing a short position	667	GBP 0.9275
07/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Reducing a short position	39	GBP 0.927
07/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Reducing a short position	8,801	GBP 0.917222
07/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Reducing a short position	7,546	GBP 0.915142
07/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Reducing a short position	3,988	GBP 0.920514
07/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	18,965	GBP 0.92225
07/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Reducing a short position	18,965	GBP 0.92225
07/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	2,173	GBP 0.92
07/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	22	GBP 0.92775
07/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Reducing a short position	22	GBP 0.92775
07/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	43,373	GBP 0.926917
07/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	10,783	GBP 0.927328
07/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	25,190	GBP 0.922079
07/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	36,796	GBP 0.92
08/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	1,378	GBP 0.92625
08/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	4,143	GBP 0.938398
08/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	30,540	GBP 0.932914
08/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	16,706	GBP 0.93975
08/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	32,942	GBP 0.942304
08/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	54,833	GBP 0.944
09/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	171,093	GBP 0.934661
14/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Reducing a short position	4,700	GBP 0.973
14/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	76,308	GBP 0.975976
16/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Reducing a short position	34,169	GBP 0.995183
17/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Reducing a short position	34,623	GBP 1.011087
22/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Reducing a short position	79,085	GBP 1.007972
24/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Reducing a short position	2,534	GBP 1.0015
25/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Reducing a short position	22,676	GBP 1.004955
28/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Reducing a short position	89,265	GBP 1.00214
29/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	26,639	GBP 1.003
29/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Reducing a short position	26,639	GBP 1.003
29/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	3,257	GBP 1.002
29/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Reducing a short position	3,257	GBP 1.002
29/04/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Reducing a short position	20,199	GBP 1.00398
01/05/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Reducing a short position	16,586	GBP 1.024781
01/05/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	124,446	GBP 1.033872
02/05/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Increasing a short position	62	GBP 1.0235
02/05/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Reducing a short position	62	GBP 1.0235
02/05/2025	Ordinary shares	CFD	Reducing a short position	7	GBP 1.021

Public disclosures under Rule 8 of the Code must be made to a Regulatory Information Service.

The Panel's Market Surveillance Unit is available for consultation in relation to the Code's dealing disclosure requirements on +44 (0)20 7638 0129.

The Code can be viewed on the Panel's website at www.thetakeoverpanel.org.uk.

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Form 8 (DD) - Primary Health Properties plc.

Date of disclosure:

Contact name:

Telephone number:

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