Transfer of shares held in treasury

28 June 2010

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 28 June 2010 it transferred to
participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 309 ordinary shares (80
ordinary shares for the early exercise of options of the SAYE 2008 scheme at a
price of 371 pence per share and 229 shares for the early exercise of options
of the SAYE 2009 scheme). The shares were all formerly held as treasury shares.

Following the above transfer of shares out of treasury, the Company holds a
total of 975,670 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,091,500.