Transaction in Own Shares

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC

22 July 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: 21 July 2015

Number of ordinary shares purchased: 204,000

Highest price paid was 700.35 pence per share and the lowest price paid was 694.167 pence per share.

The purchase represented an average price of 699.64 pence per share.

The purchased shares will be cancelled. Following this purchase, the total number of voting rights in JD Wetherspoon plc is 119,573,545.