Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many whole time equivalent staff were employed at each magistrates' and Crown court in England in each of the last five years.

I regret I am unable to collate the information required to answer this request within the normal time constraints of an ordinary written Parliamentary Question.

Providing details for the requested period of five years requires an extensive manual search of legacy records and reports.

I will write again in due course with the information available.