Transfer of shares held in treasury

1 February 2012

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 1 February 2012 it transferred
to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 1,034 ordinary shares for
the exercise of options under the SAYE 2008 scheme at a price of 371 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 262,698 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,804,472.