Transfer of shares held in treasury

31 January 2011

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 31 January 2011 it transferred
to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 99 ordinary shares (64
ordinary shares for the early exercise of options of the SAYE 2008 scheme at a
price of 371 pence per share and 35 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 970,939 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,096,231.