Transaction in Own Shares

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: 18th May 2016

Number of ordinary shares purchased: 72,500

The highest price paid was 718.50 pence per share and lowest price paid was 713.0 pence per share.

The purchase represented an average price of 717.0 pence per share.

The purchased shares will be cancelled. Following this purchase, the total number of voting rights in JD Wetherspoon plc is 115,753,085