Transfer of shares held in Treasury

1 February 2006

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ('the Company') announces that on 1 February 2006 it transferred
to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme, 2,067,527 ordinary
shares at a price of 197p per share. The shares were all formerly held as
treasury shares.

Following the above transfer of shares out of treasury, the Company holds a
total of 8,533,285 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 390,218,036.