Transfer of shares held in treasury

11 February 2014 FirstGroup plc Transfer of shares held in treasury FirstGroup plc (the "Company") announces that on 11 February 2014 ittransferred to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 214 ordinaryshares for the early exercise of options under the SAYE 2012 scheme at a priceof 117.339 pence per share. The shares were all formerly held as treasuryshares. Following the above transfer of shares out of treasury, the Company holds atotal of 160,565 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number ofordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 1,204,766,191.