Transfer of shares held in treasury

9 February 2011

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 9 February 2011 it transferred
to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 1,710 ordinary shares
(1,165 ordinary shares for the exercise of options on the maturity of the SAYE
2007 scheme at a price of 583 pence per share, 336 ordinary shares for the
early exercise of options under the SAYE 2008 scheme at a price of 371 pence
per share and 209 ordinary shares for the early exercise of options under the
SAYE 2009 scheme at a price of 310 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 969,032 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,098,138.