Transaction in Own Shares

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC

31 March 2015

JD Wetherspoon plc ("the Company")

Transaction in own shares

Pursuant to the authority given to the Company by shareholders, the Company announces that it has purchased ordinary shares of 2p each as follows:

Date of purchase: 30 March 2015

Number of ordinary shares purchased: 323,863

Highest price paid was 759.194 pence per share and the lowest price paid was 752.28 pence per share.

The purchase represented an average price of 754.4347 pence per share.

The purchased shares will be cancelled. Following this purchase, the total number of voting rights in JD Wetherspoon plc is 121,937,545.