Transfer of shares held in treasury

31 July 2014 FirstGroup plc Transfer of shares held in treasury FirstGroup plc (the "Company") announces that on 31 July 2014 it transferred toparticipants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 563 ordinary shares for theearly exercise of options (505 ordinary shares under the SAYE 2012 scheme at aprice of 117.339 pence per share and 58 ordinary shares under the SAYE 2013scheme at a price of 94.08 pence per share). The shares were all formerly heldas treasury shares. Following the above transfer of shares out of treasury, the Company holds atotal of 158,616 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number ofordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 1,204,768,140.