Transfer of shares held in treasury

6 January 2010

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 6 January 2010 it transferred
to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 11,884 ordinary shares
(10,651 ordinary shares for the exercise of options of the SAYE 2006 scheme at
a price of 325 pence per share, 854 ordinary shares for the early exercise of
options of the SAYE2006B scheme at a price of 444 pence per share, 315 ordinary
shares for the early exercise of options of the SAYE 2007 scheme at a price of
583 pence per share and 64 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 977,147 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,090,023.