Transfer of shares held in treasury

8 February 2010

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 8 February 2010 it transferred
to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 345 ordinary shares for
the exercise of options of the SAYE 2006 scheme 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 976,641 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,090,529.