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 23 October 2015 in accordance with standing instructions as follows:

Director	Ordinary Shares of 5 pence each
Mick Barker	2,455
Warwick Brady	2,843
Drummond Hall	2,029
Wolfhart Hauser	7,950
Brian Wallace	2,182
Imelda Walsh	1,313
Tim O’Toole	8,447

Shares were purchased at a price of 97.10 pence per share.

Jim Winestock

2,121

Shares were purchased at a price of 97.49 pence per share.

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

Director	Ordinary Shares of 5 pence each
Mick Barker	68,897
Warwick Brady	53,126
Drummond Hall	29,081
Wolfhart Hauser	27,078
Brian Wallace	67,176
Imelda Walsh	18,192
Jim Winestock	62,756
Tim O’Toole	808,664

26 October 2015