Transfer of shares held in treasury

18 July 2012

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 18 July 2012 it transferred to
participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 54 ordinary shares for the
early exercise of options under the SAYE 2011 scheme at a price of 271.52 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 261,375 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,805,795.