Transfer of shares held in treasury

20 March 2006

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 20 March 2006 it transferred
to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme, 37,592 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 6,655,568 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 392,095,753.