Director/PDMR Shareholding

FirstGroup plc – Notification of Directors’ Interests in Shares

Each Non-Executive Director of the Company listed below (other than Warwick Brady who receives 100% of his fee, Imelda Walsh who receives 25% of her fee and Wolfhart Hauser who receives 1/3 of his fee in the form of shares in the Company) has elected to receive 40% of his fee in the form of shares in the Company. Tim O’ Toole, Chief Executive, has elected to allocate part of his monthly salary to acquire shares in the Company.  Arrangements have been made for these shares to be purchased on their behalf in the market on a regular basis.

Purchases took place on 25 August 2015 in accordance with standing instructions as follows:

Director	Ordinary Shares of 5 pence each
Mick Barker	1,114
Warwick Brady	2,602
Drummond Hall	1,857
Wolfhart Hauser	7,276
Brian Wallace	1,998
Imelda Walsh	1,203
Jim Winestock	1,939
Tim O’Toole	7,731

Shares were purchased at a price of 106.10 pence per share.

The revised total beneficial holdings of the directors following these transactions are:

Director	Ordinary Shares of 5 pence each
Mick Barker	65,001
Warwick Brady	47,518
Drummond Hall	25,079
Wolfhart Hauser	11,398
Brian Wallace	62,871
Imelda Walsh	15,601
Jim Winestock	58,574
Tim O’Toole	792,003

26 August 2015