Transaction in Own Shares

Close period repurchase programme

JD Wetherspoon plc ("JD Wetherspoon" or the "Company") announces that the Company has today entered into an irrevocable and non-discretionary arrangement with Investec Bank PLC, to repurchase on its behalf and within certain pre-set parameters, ordinary shares in JD Wetherspoon for cancellation, during the Company's close period which will end on announcement of the Company's trading update on 18th January 2017. This arrangement is in accordance with Chapter 12 of the UKLA Listing Rules and JD Wetherspoon's general authority to repurchase shares.