Lord Beecham – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Beecham on 2015-11-09.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many (1) lay magistrates, (2) deputy district judges, and (3) district judges, are sitting in the magistrates courts.

Lord Faulks

As at 1 April 2015, when the latest annual appointments statistics for the judiciary were published, there were 19,634 magistrates, 115 deputy district judges (magistrates’ courts) and 138 district judges (magistrates’ courts) serving in England and Wales. These figures are published on the Judiciary website.