Transfer of shares held in treasury

18 August 2014

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc (the "Company") announces that on 18 August 2014 it transferred
to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 312 ordinary shares for
the early exercise of options under the SAYE 2012 scheme at a price of 117.339
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 157,947 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 1,204,768,809.