Transfer of Shares held in Treasury

21 December 2010

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc (the "Company") announces that on 21 December 2010 it
transferred to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 233 ordinary
shares for the early exercise of options of the SAYE 2007 scheme at a price of
583 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 972,140 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,095,030.