Transfer of shares held in treasury

16 August 2010

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc (the "Company") announces that on 16 August 2010 it transferred
to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 38 ordinary shares for
the early exercise of options of 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 974,657 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,092,513.