Director/PDMR Shareholding

The Go-Ahead Group plc

("The Company")

Director / PDMR Shareholding

Award under The Go-Ahead Group plc Long-Term Incentive Plan 2015 (the "Plan")

The Company announces that, under the terms of the Plan, David Brown, Executive Director was granted an award on Wednesday 4 November 2015 by Computershare Trustees (Jersey) Limited, Trustees of The Go-Ahead Group Employee Share Trust, to acquire ordinary shares of 10 pence in the Company as follows:-

David Brown - 32,618

The awards will vest only if the new performance targets, as set out in the Annual Report and Accounts 2015, are achieved over a performance period commencing with the start of the 2015/16 financial period and ending with the end of the 2017/18 financial period. The participating Executive Director will, following the end of the performance period, be notified as to the extent to which the performance conditions have been met and their awards have vested. Any awards that vest will be satisfied by the transfer of existing shares. These awards must be retained (other than to pay tax or NIC's due on receipt of the shares) for two further years and are also subject to recovery and withholding provisions for three years following vesting.

For further information please contact:

Carolyn Ferguson, Company Secretary - 0191 232 3123