Result of AGM

FirstGroup plc                                 

                                (the "Company")                                

               Results of Annual General Meeting on 8 July 2010                

The Board of FirstGroup plc announces that, at the Annual General Meeting held
earlier today, Resolutions 1 to 16 were duly passed by the Company's
shareholders on a poll. The results of the poll are shown below.

            Resolution               FOR                AGAINST        WITHHELD 
                                                                                
                               No. of      % of     No. of     % of     No. of  
                                Votes      Vote     Votes      Vote     Votes   
                                                                                
 1.   To receive the Annual  306,424,625  99.69    953,646     0.31    118,828  
      Report and Financial                                                      
      Statements                                                                
                                                                                
 2.   To approve the         293,100,991  96.32   11,190,186   3.68   3,205,921 
      Directors'                                                                
      Remuneration Report                                                       
                                                                                
 3.   To declare a final     307,281,986  99.99     16,765     0.01    198,348  
      dividend                                                                  
                                                                                
 4.   To re-elect Martin     296,278,875  96.39   11,089,683   3.61    128,541  
      Gilbert as a Director                                                     
                                                                                
 5.   To re-elect Sir Moir   300,225,426  97.67   7,177,262    2.33     94,411  
      Lockhead as a Director                                                    
                                                                                
 6.   To re-elect Audrey     304,540,141  99.08   2,825,513    0.92    131,445  
      Baxter as a Director                                                      
                                                                                
 7.   To re-elect John       304,584,236  99.09   2,787,525    0.91    125,338  
      Sievwright as a                                                           
      Director                                                                  
                                                                                
 8.   To elect Jeff Carr as  300,101,246  97.85   6,579,498    2.15    816,355  
      a Director                                                                
                                                                                
 9.   To re-appoint Deloitte 296,575,833  99.38   1,857,250    0.62   9,064,015 
      LLP as independent                                                        
      auditors                                                                  
                                                                                
 10.  To authorise the       298,919,854  99.56   1,332,209    0.44   7,245,036 
      Directors to determine                                                    
      the remuneration of                                                       
      the independent                                                           
      auditors                                                                  
                                                                                
 11.  To authorise the       246,616,971  83.27   49,534,653  16.73   11,344,675
      Directors to allot                                                        
      shares                                                                    
                                                                                
 12.  To authorise the       302,441,951  98.45   4,773,234    1.55    281,914  
      Directors to disapply                                                     
      pre-emption rights                                                        
                                                                                
 13.  To permit the Company  307,058,310  99.90    314,062     0.10    124,700  
      to purchase its own                                                       
      shares                                                                    
                                                                                
 14.  To authorise the       302,895,817  98.60   4,285,422    1.40    315,860  
      Company to make                                                           
      political donations                                                       
      and incur political                                                       
      expenditure                                                               
                                                                                
 15.  To adopt new articles  304,553,484  99.79    641,738     0.21   2,301,876 
      of association                                                            
                                                                                
 16.  To authorise the       293,842,467  95.79   12,910,291   4.21    744,341  
      calling of general                                                        
      meetings of the                                                           
      Company by notice of                                                      
      14 clear days                                                             

Votes "For" and "Against" are expressed as a percentage of votes received.

A "Vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of
the votes "For" and "Against" a resolution.

The current issued share capital of FirstGroup plc is 481,091,718 ordinary
shares of 5 pence per share (excluding treasury shares).