Transfer of shares held in treasury

28 February 2013

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc (the "Company") announces that on 28 February 2013 it
transferred to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 11 ordinary
shares for the early exercise of options under the SAYE 2012 scheme at a price
of 143.92 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 160,779 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,906,391.