Transfer of shares held in treasury

1 February 2011

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 1 February 2011 it transferred
to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 197 ordinary shares for
the exercise of options under the SAYE 2007 scheme at a price of 583 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 970,742 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,096,428.