Director/PDMR Shareholding

FirstGroup plc – Notification of Directors’ Interests in Shares

Each Non-Executive Director of the Company listed below (other than Warwick Brady who receives 100% of his fee, Imelda Walsh who receives 25% of her fee and Wolfhart Hauser who receives 1/3 of his fee in the form of shares in the Company) has elected to receive 40% of his fee in the form of shares in the Company. Tim O’ Toole, Chief Executive, has elected to allocate part of his monthly salary to acquire shares in the Company.  Arrangements have been made for these shares to be purchased on their behalf in the market on a regular basis.

Purchases took place on 25 September 2015 in accordance with standing instructions as follows:

Director	Ordinary Shares of 5 pence each
Mick Barker	1,184
Warwick Brady	2,765
Drummond Hall	1,973
Wolfhart Hauser	7,730
Brian Wallace	2,123
Imelda Walsh	1,278
Jim Winestock	2,061
Tim O’Toole	8,214

Shares were purchased at a price of 99.85 pence per share.

The revised total beneficial holdings of the directors following these transactions are:

Director	Ordinary Shares of 5 pence each
Mick Barker	66,311
Warwick Brady	50,283
Drummond Hall	27,052
Wolfhart Hauser	19,128
Brian Wallace	64,994
Imelda Walsh	16,879
Jim Winestock	60,635
Tim O’Toole	800,217

28 September 2015