Transfer of shares held in treasury

6 July 2009

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc (the "Company") announces that on 6 July 2009 it transferred to
participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 12,291 ordinary shares at a
price of 325 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 161,813 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,905,357.