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 6 September 2010 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:-

Keith Ludeman - 69,272

Nicholas Swift - 41,901

The awards will vest only if the performance targets set out in the Plan rules are achieved over a performance period commencing with the start of the 2010/11 financial period and ending with the end of the 2012/13 financial period. The participating 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. They will then, provided that they continue to remain directors or employees of the company, have up to six months following 6 September 2013 (the third anniversary of the date on which the awards were granted) in which to secure the release of the ordinary shares. Awards will be satisfied by the transfer of existing shares.

For further information please contact:

Carolyn Sephton, Company Secretary - 0191 232 3123