Transfer of shares held in treasury

12 July 2010

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc (the "Company") announces that on 12 July 2010 it transferred to
participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 418 ordinary shares (242
ordinary shares for the early exercise of options of the SAYE 2008 scheme at a
price of 371 pence per share and 176 for the early exercise of options of the
SAYE 2009 scheme at a price of 310 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 975,034 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,092,136.