Transfer of shares held in treasury

16 November 2009

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc (the "Company") announces that on 16 November 2009 it
transferred to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 9,121
ordinary shares (8,987 ordinary shares for the maturity of the SAYE 2006 scheme
each at a price of 325 pence per share and 134 ordinary shares for the early
exercise of share options under the SAYE 2008 scheme each 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 1,000,632 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,066,538.