Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many new entrants to the judiciary there have been in each year since 2017.

The annual Judicial Diversity statistics includes data on new entrants. New entrants and leavers statistics were first included in the annual diversity statistics as experimental statistics in 2019. It should be noted that for most salaried judicial appointments, previous judicial experience is required and these appointments will therefore not be categorised as new entrants to the judiciary. Magistrates' new appointment statistics were first included in 2020.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/diversity-of-the-judiciary-2021-statistics.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/diversity-of-the-judiciary-2020-statistics.

https://www.judiciary.uk/publications/judicial-diversity-statistics-2019-2/.