Transfer of shares held in treasury

4 May 2010

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 4 May 2010 it transferred to
participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 175 ordinary shares for the
early exercise of options of the SAYE 2008 scheme at a price of 371 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 976,181 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,090,989.