Director/PDMR Shareholding

The Go-Ahead Group plc

("The Company")

Director / PDMR Shareholding

Awards under LTIP

The Company announces that, under the terms of The Go-Ahead Group plc Long-Term Incentive Plan 2005 ("the Plan"), the following Executive Directors were granted awards on Monday 31 October 2011 by EES Trustees International Limited, Trustees of the Go-Ahead Employee Share Trust, to acquire ordinary shares of 10 pence in the Company as follows:-

David Brown - 35,838

Keith Down - 22,936

The awards will vest only if the new performance targets, as set out in the Plan Rules, are achieved over a performance period commencing with the start of the 2011/12 financial period and ending with the end of the 2013/14 financial period. The participating Executive Directors 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.

For further information please contact:

Carolyn Sephton, Company Secretary - 0191 232 3123