FirstGroup PLC — AGM Information 2014

Jul 16, 2014

FIRSTGROUP PLC Registered in Scotland No. SC157176 (the "Company")

At an Annual General Meeting of the Company duly convened and held at 11.00 a.m. on Wednesday 16 July 2014 at The Marcliffe Hotel, North Deeside Road, Pitfodels, Aberdeen, AB15 9YA the following resolutions were duly passed in connection with special business:

Ordinary Resolution

• $\overline{2}$ To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy set out on pages 71 to 80 (inclusive) in the Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2014.
• To approve the Directors' Annual Report on Remuneration for the year ended 31 3 March 2014 set out on pages 70 and 81 to 92 (inclusive) in the Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2014.
• 15 That, in accordance with Article 86 of the Company's Articles of Association (the "Articles"), the total fees paid to all of the Directors, excluding any payments made under any other provisions of the Articles, shall not exceed £1,000,000 a year.

Special Resolutions

• 17 That if resolution 16 is passed, the Board be given power to allot equity securities (as defined in the Companies Act 2006 (the "Act")) for cash under the authority given by that resolution and/or to sell ordinary shares held by the Company as treasury shares for cash as if section 561 of the Act did not apply to any such allotment or sale, such power to be limited:
• $(A)$ to the allotment of equity securities and sale of treasury shares for cash in connection with an offer of, or invitation to apply for, equity securities (but in the case of the authority granted under paragraph (B) of resolution 16, by way of a rights issue only):
  • to ordinary shareholders in proportion (as nearly as may be $(i)$ practicable) to their existing holdings; and
  • $(ii)$ to holders of other equity securities, as required by the rights of those securities or, as the Board otherwise considers necessary,

and so that the Board may impose any limits or restrictions and make any arrangements which it considers necessary or appropriate to deal with treasury shares, fractional entitlements, record dates, legal, regulatory or practical problems in, or under the laws of, any territory or any other matter; and

$(B)$ in the case of the authority granted under paragraph (A) of resolution 16 and/or in the case of any sale of treasury shares for cash, to the allotment (otherwise than under paragraph (A) above) of equity securities or sale of treasury shares up to a nominal amount of £3,012,316,

such power to apply until the end of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company in 2015 (or, if earlier, on 16 October 2015) (unless previously revoked or varied by the Company in general meeting) but during this period the Company may make offers, and enter into agreements, which would, or might. require equity securities to be allotted (and treasury shares to be sold) after the power ends and the Board may allot equity securities under any such offer or agreement as if the power had not ended.

• 18 That the Company be authorised for the purposes of section 701 of the Companies Act 2006 (the "Act") to make one or more market purchases (as defined in section 693(4) of the Act) of its ordinary shares of 5 pence each, such power to be limited:
• $(A)$ to a maximum aggregate number of 120,400,000 ordinary shares; and
• $(B)$ by the condition that the minimum price which may be paid for an ordinary share is 5 pence and the maximum price which may be paid for an ordinary share is the highest of:
  • $(i)$ an amount equal to 5% above the average market value of an ordinary share as derived from the London Stock Exchange Daily Official List for the five business days immediately preceding the day on which that ordinary share is contracted to be purchased; and
  • $(ii)$ the higher of the price of the last independent trade and the highest current independent bid on the trading venues where the purchase is carried out,

in each case, exclusive of expenses,

such power to apply until the end of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company in 2015 (or, if earlier, on 16 October 2015) (unless previously revoked or varied by the Company in general meeting) but, in each case, so that the Company may enter into a contract to purchase ordinary shares which will or may be completed or executed wholly or partly after the power ends and the Company may purchase ordinary shares pursuant to any such contract as if the power had not ended.

Ordinary Resolution

19 That in accordance with sections 366 to 367 of the Companies Act 2006 (the "Act") the Company and all companies that are subsidiaries of the Company at any time during the period commencing on the date of this resolution and ending at the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company in 2015 or, if earlier, on 16 July 2015 be and are hereby authorised:

• $(A)$ to make political donations to political parties and/or independent election candidates;
• to make political donations to political organisations other than political $(B)$ parties; and
• $(C)$ to incur political expenditure.

up to an aggregate amount of £100,000. Words and expressions defined for the purpose of the Act shall have the same meaning in this resolution.

All existing authorisations and approvals relating to political donations or expenditure under Part 14 of the Act are hereby revoked without prejudice to any donation made or expenditure incurred prior to the date hereof pursuant to such authorisation or approval.

Special Resolution

20 That a general meeting other than an Annual General Meeting may be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice.

Company Secretary

16 July 2014