Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the press release entitled Thousands step forward in record magistrate recruitment drive, published on 23 October 2026, what the expenditure is expected to be on (a) television advertising, (b) social media advertising, (c) other promotional activity from the £4 million magistrate recruitment campaign.

The campaign is ongoing, so we do not have final costings yet. The campaign is being managed and will be evaluated in line with Cabinet Office rules.

Full costings will be published in line with transparency rules on departmental expenditure in the usual way once the campaign has completed.