Transfer of shares held in treasury

5 December 2011

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 5 December 2011 it transferred
to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 103 ordinary shares for
the exercise of options under the SAYE 2010 scheme at a price of 319.04 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 264,913 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,802,257.