Transfer of shares held in treasury

19 July 2011

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 19 July 2011 it transferred to
participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 164 ordinary shares for the
exercise of options under the SAYE 2008 scheme at a price of 583 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 267,571 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,799,599.