Transfer of shares held in treasury

9 January 2012

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 9 January 2012 it transferred
to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 639 ordinary shares (485
ordinary shares for the early exercise of options under the SAYE 2008 scheme at
a price of 371 pence per share and 154 ordinary shares for the early 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 264,274 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,802,896.