Transfer of shares held in treasury

4 August 2014

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc (the "Company") announces that on 4 August 2014 it transferred
to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 357 ordinary shares for
the early exercise of options under the SAYE 2012 scheme at a price of 117.339
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 158,259 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 1,204,768,497.