Transfer of shares held in treasury

3 August 2009

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc (the "Company") announces that on 3 August 2009 it transferred
to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 10,624 ordinary shares at
a price of 325 pence 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 121,352 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,945,818.