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Judiciary: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many staff members within the Ministry of Justice Policy Group are responsible for delivering the Lord Chancellor’s duty to encourage judicial diversity; and what the annual budget of this team is.

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Answering body: Ministry of Justice
Tabled: 8 Jun 2026
Target answer date: 10 Jun 2026
Answer: 17 Jun 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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8 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many staff members within the Ministry of Justice Policy Group are responsible for delivering the Lord Chancellor’s duty to encourage judicial diversity; and what the annual budget of this team is.
10 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Jun 2026
Answer published
Work within Judicial Diversity has been a longstanding policy area in the Ministry of Justice, with the current structure operating since 2022.There are three dedicated roles in the Judicial Diversity team in the Ministry of Justice Policy Group – the tea...

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