Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many fines have been (a) issued and (b) withdrawn on appeal by the Solicitors Regulation Authority in each of the last three years for which data is available.

According to the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), 69 fines were issued during the period 2020/21, followed by 49 between 2021/22 and 73 between 2022/23. The SRA has confirmed that the data for the 2023/24 period is not currently available. Further information is set out by the SRA in its Upholding Professionals Standards (UPS) reports, the three most recent versions of which are available here:

2022/23: https://www.sra.org.uk/sra/research-publications/upholding-professional-standards-2022-23/.

2021/22: https://www.sra.org.uk/sra/research-publications/upholding-professional-standards-2021-22/#.

2020/21: https://www.sra.org.uk/sra/research-publications/upholding-professional-standards-202021/.

The SRA does not publish information regarding appeals.