Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent estimate he has made of the number of magistrates who are (a) BAME or (b) under the age of 30.

As of 1^st April 2020, there were 13,177 magistrates across England and Wales. 1,539 magistrates (13% of those who declared their ethnicity) identified themselves as from a Black, Asian or Ethnic Minority Background and 153 (1%) are under the age of 30. This data is published in the annual Judicial Diversity Statistics.