Transaction in Own Shares

23 July 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: 22 July 2014

Number of ordinary shares purchased: 29,300

Highest price paid was 744.722 pence per share and the lowest price paid was 743.79 pence per share.

The purchase represented an average price of 744.31 pence per share.

The purchased shares will be cancelled. Following this purchase, the total number of voting rights in JD Wetherspoon plc is 122,968,208.