Transfer of shares held in treasury

29 November 2010

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc (the "Company") announces that on 29 November 2010 it
transferred to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 1,760
ordinary shares (296 ordinary shares for the early exercise of options of the
SAYE 2008 scheme at a price of 371 pence per share and 1,464 ordinary shares
for the early exercise of options of 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 972,373 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,094,797.