Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) court judges, (b) tribunal judges and (c) magistrates there are in England and Wales as at 25 January 2022.

The numbers of court judges, tribunal judges and magistrates are reported in the 2021 Diversity of the Judicial Diversity statistics: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/diversity-of-the-judiciary-2021-statistics. As of 1 April 2021, there were:

a) Court judges: 3,314

b) Tribunal judges: 1,711

c) Magistrates: 12,651

This data is published annually. The next report, which will include data of the numbers of judges and magistrates in office on 1 April 2022, is scheduled to be published in July 2022.

We have an annual recruitment programme for around 1000 judges and have recently launched a new online magistrates recruitment process and marketing campaign.