Director/PDMR Shareholding

FirstGroup plc
29 July 2021

Legal Entity Identifier:  549300DEJZCPWA4HKM93

Director/PDMR Shareholding

Exercise of options under LTIP and EABP schemes and partial sale to
satisfy resulting Income Tax and National Insurance liabilities

FirstGroup plc (the "Company") has been notified that Chief Executive Matthew Gregory exercised the following options over ordinary shares of 5 pence each which were awarded in 2018, in accordance with the terms of the LTIP and EABP plans:

Plan	Number of shares under option
Long Term Incentive Plan 2018 (“LTIP 2018”)	166,811
Executive Annual Bonus Plan 2018 (“EABP 2018”)	86,958

Matthew’s beneficial holding of ordinary shares in the Company has increased from 557,061 to 691,144. As part of the exercise, Matthew sold 119,686 of the shares, which was the amount required to satisfy the resulting Income Tax and National Insurance liabilities.

The transactions listed above took place in London (XLON) on 28 July 2021.

This notification is made in accordance with Article 19 of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) 596/2014.

Enquiries:

Seema Kamboj, Deputy Company Secretary

[phone]

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)	Name	Matthew Gregory
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	Chief Executive
b)	Initial notification /Amendment	Initial
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	FirstGroup plc
b)	LEI	549300DEJZCPWA4HKM93
4	Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
a)	Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument Identification code	Ordinary shares of 5p each GB0003452173
b)	Nature of the transaction	Exercise of option under the LTIP 2018 Exercise of option under the EABP 2018
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s) Volume(s) NIL NIL 166,811 86,958
d)	- Aggregated volume - Price	253,769 NIL
e)	Date of the transaction	28 July 2021
f)	Place of the transaction	London Stock Exchange (XLON)
Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
4	Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
a)	Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument Identification code	Ordinary shares of 5p each GB0003452173
b)	Nature of the transaction	Subsequent sale to cover Income Tax and National Insurance liabilities
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s) Volume(s) 86.40 pence 119,686
d)	Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price	119,686 £103,408.70
e)	Date of the transaction	28 July 2021
f)	Place of the transaction	London Stock Exchange (XLON)
Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted