Transfer of shares held in treasury

31 July 2014

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc (the "Company") announces that on 31 July 2014 it transferred to
participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 563 ordinary shares for the
early exercise of options (505 ordinary shares under the SAYE 2012 scheme at a
price of 117.339 pence per share and 58 ordinary shares under the SAYE 2013
scheme at a price of 94.08 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 158,616 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 1,204,768,140.