Immigration: Appeals

(asked on 16th September 2025) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he plans to publish a list of all (a) fee-paid and (b) part-time judges sitting in the immigration tribunals.


Answered by
Sarah Sackman Portrait
Sarah Sackman
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 14th October 2025

The judiciary are responsible for publishing lists of judges. They do not routinely publish lists of fee-paid (part-time) judges due to the frequency of changes in the fee-paid judge cohort.

Information on the number of judges in post is published in the annual Judicial Diversity Statistics: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/judicial-diversity-statistics.

The current judicial salaries and fees are published annually: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/judicial-salaries-and-fees-2025-to-2026.

The total cost of judicial remuneration depends on the number of sittings per year. In 2024/25, the costs of judges sitting in the Immigration and Asylum Chambers of both the First-tier and Upper Tribunal were:

Basic Salary & Allowances £m

Employers' Pension Contributions £m

Total £m

Salaried Judges

17.6

11.0

28.6

Fee Paid Judges

11.1

6.8

17.9

Total

28.7

17.8

46.5

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