Transfer of Shares held in Treasury

6 February 2006

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ('the Company') announces that on 6 February 2006 it transferred
to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme, 777,894 ordinary shares
at a price of 192p 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 7,840,691 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 390,910,630.