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Dept for Constitutional Affairs

Answer

Paddy Tipping: To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs how many (a) full- time and (b) part-time judicial officer appointments have been made in each year since 1975. [215189] Mr. Leslie: The number of full-time judicial officer appointments between the calendar years 1975 to 1997 is detailed in the following tables 1A and B. The tables include lay magistrates appointments from 1990 onwards. The figures for the appointment of part-time judicial officers between 1975 and 1998, and for lay magistrates prior to 1990 are not given as they could be determined only at disproportionate cost. The numbers of full-time and part-time judicial officer appointments for each year between 1998 and 2004 are set out in table 2. These figures are obtained from the Judicial Appointments Annual Reports to Parliament for each of the financial years from 1998 to 2004. Table 1A: 1975 to 1984--Full-time appointments _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Number 1975 45 1976 46 1977 43 1978 57 1979 39 1980 65 1981 10 1982 10 1983 48 1984 62 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Table 1B: 1985 to 1994--Full-time and lay magistrates appointments _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Full time Lay magistrates 1985 53 n/a 1986 82 n/a 1987 54 n/a 1988 60 n/a 1989 54 n/a 1990 55 2,059 1991 92 2,017 1992 120 2,070 1993 127 2,062 1994 91 1,593 1995 110 1,843 1996 100 1,682 1997 93 1,573 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Table 2: 1998-99 to 2003-04--Full-time, part-time (fee paid) and lay magistrates appointments _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Full time Part time Total Number of lay magistrates 1998-99 148 486 634 1,609 1999-2000 95 369 464 1,423 2000-01 198 555 753 1,618 2001-02 125 790 915 1,786 2002-03 156 541 697 1,623 2003-04 126 354 480 1,478 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

215189; 431 c677-8W;431 c673-4W

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Judiciary Public appointments Staff Part-time employment Magistrates

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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