Transfer of shares held in treasury

17 August 2009

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc (the "Company") announces that on 17 August 2009 it transferred
to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 6,610 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 109,697 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,957,473.