Transfer of shares held in treasury

23 November 2009

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc (the "Company") announces that on 23 November 2009 it
transferred to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 10,946
ordinary shares for the maturity of the SAYE 2006 scheme each 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 989,686 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,077,484.