Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many bailiffs have been removed from the certificated bailiff register in each of the last seven years.

Since the introduction of the Certification of Enforcement Agent Regulations in April 2014, the following numbers of enforcement agents have been removed from the Register of Certificated Enforcement Agents:

2014 - 31

2015 - 91

2016 - 104

2017 - 74

2018 – 37

2019 (January -April) - 26

Reasons for cancelling a certificate include an agent leaving his or her employer, ceasing to work as an enforcement agent or by a judicial order following a judgment that they are not a fit and proper person to hold a certificate.