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Magistrates: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an estimate of the number of magistrates recruited since the 2022 recruitment campaign.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
21 Jan 2025
Target answer date
23 Jan 2025
Answer
29 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 21 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an estimate of the number of magistrates recruited since the 2022 recruitment campaign.

  2. 23 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 29 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    Recruitment rates for the magistracy are published in the annual Judicial Diversity Statistics, found here. As of 01 April 2024, there were 14,576 active magistrates in England and Wales, an increase of 2,907 since the start of the Magistrate Attraction a...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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