Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many magistrates (a) were recruited and (b) retired in Essex in each of the last three financial years.

The Ministry of Justice publishes annual Diversity of the Judiciary statistics on magistrates in post, appointments and leavers at Advisory Committee level, but does not routinely publish leavers by reason. For this PQ, data have been extracted for North and South Essex and retirement separately identified from the underlying leavers data. “Retired” includes magistrates who retired to the Supplemental List, either voluntarily or on reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75.

Figures cover financial years from 1 April to 31 March and are set out below: