Transfer of shares held in treasury

19 September 2011

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 19 September 2011 it
transferred to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 118 ordinary
shares for the early 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 266,156 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,801,014.