Lord Beecham – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Beecham on 2015-10-05.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many lay magistrates were recruited in the last year for which figures are available, and what was the breakdown by ethnicity and gender.
Lord Faulks
A total of 403 magistrates were appointed in England and Wales between 1 April 2014 and 31 March 2015. A breakdown of those appointments can be found in the tables below:
Gender
|
Male |
Female |
|
158 (39%) |
245 (61%) |
Ethnicity
|
White |
Mixed |
Black |
Asian |
Chinese |
Other |
|
333 (83%) |
15 (4%) |
24 (6%) |
22 (5%) |
3 (>1%) |
6 (2%) |
Age
|
18-29 |
30-39 |
40-49 |
50-59 |
60-65 |
|
24 (6%) |
75 (19%) |
97 (24%) |
154 (38%) |
53 (13%) |
