Transfer of shares held in treasury

5 April 2011

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 5 April 2011 it transferred to
participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 434 ordinary shares for the
exercise of options under 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 268,453 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,798,717.