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: 5^th December 2016

Number of ordinary shares purchased: 25,000

The highest price paid was 822.70 pence per share and lowest price paid was 819.53 pence per share.

The purchase represented an average price of 821.08 pence per share.

The purchased shares will be cancelled. Following this purchase, the total number of voting rights in JD Wetherspoon plc is 111,561,835.