Transfer of shares held in treasury

20 February 2012

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 20 February 2012 it
transferred to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 866 ordinary
shares (207 ordinary shares for the exercise of options of the SAYE 2008 scheme
at a price of 371 pence per share, 403 ordinary shares for the early exercise
of options of the SAYE 2009 scheme at a price of 310 pence per share and 256
ordinary shares for the early exercise of options of 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 261,429 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,805,741.