Transaction in Own Shares

20 November 2013

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: 19 November 2013

Number of ordinary shares purchased: 50,000

Highest price paid was and 700p the lowest price paid was 695.5p

The purchase represented an average price of 699.06p per share.

The purchased shares will be cancelled. Following this purchase, the total number of voting rights in JD Wetherspoon plc is 125,986,296.

Enquiries:

Sally Kenward, Tel.: 01923 477764

Deputy Company Secretary