Transfer of shares held in treasury

17 July 2006

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 17 July 2006 it transferred to
participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 12,929 ordinary shares at a
price of 192p 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 5,596,727 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 393,154,594.