Transaction in Own Shares

1 May 2014

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 April 2014

Number of ordinary shares purchased: 40,500

Highest price paid and lowest price paid was 845.27p and 844.88p.

The purchase represented an average price of 845.19p per share.

The purchased shares will be cancelled. Following this purchase, the total number of voting rights in JD Wetherspoon plc is 124,997,347.