Transfer of shares held in treasury

16 August 2011

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 16 August 2011 it transferred
to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 701 ordinary shares (395
ordinary shares for the exercise of options under the SAYE 2007 scheme at a
price of 583 pence per share and 306 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 266,870 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,800,300.