Speeches

Andy Slaughter – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andy Slaughter on 2015-12-02.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of magistrates has resigned in each month since January 2015.

Mr Shailesh Vara

The requested information is provided in the table below.

Month

Resignations

Proportion of total in post*

Jan

66

0.34

Feb

46

0.24

Mar

95

0.50

Apr

80

0.42

May

95

0.50

Jun

92

0.48

Jul

79

0.41

Aug

69

0.36

Sep

89

0.46

Oct

80

0.42

Nov

64

0.33

* There are approximately 19,000 magistrates in England and Wales.