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Debt Collection

Answer

HM Courts Service does not collect numbers of bailiffs in each parliamentary constituency. The following table sets out the numbers of certificated bailiffs who hold currently valid certificates which have been granted by county courts in England and Wales. My officials regularly update these data on the basis of information provided by the county courts. These data are a snapshot of those returns received at any one point in time and those presented as follows are the latest available figures.

County court	Bailiffs
Aldershot and Farnham	1
Altrincham	13
Bedford	4
Birkenhead	23
Birmingham	27
Bournemouth	19
Bradford	8
Brighton	19
Bristol	11
Bromley	35
Burnley	177
Caernarfon	18
Cambridge	1
Canterbury	4
Cardiff	2
Chelmsford	7
Chester	1
Chichester	15
Clerkenwell and Shoreditch	150
Colchester	1
Coventry	1
Croydon	99
Dartford	27
Derby	4
Doncaster	2
Edmonton	5
Epsom	17
Exeter	5
Gateshead	23
Guildford	1
Harrogate	1
Haverfordwest	2
Huddersfield	27
Ipswich	3
King's Lynn	2
Kingston-upon-Hull	9
Lambeth	3
Leeds	7
Leicester	10
Lincoln	6
Liverpool	25
Luton	8
Macclesfield	5
Manchester	29
Medway	24
Merthyr Tydfil	73
Middlesbrough	54
Milton Keynes	13
Morpeth and Berwick	3
Newport (Gwent)	4
Northampton	91
Norwich	11
Nottingham	9
Oldham	27
Oxford	8
Peterborough	6
Plymouth	2
Preston	4
Reading	7
Redditch	266
Romford	7
Scarborough	2
Sheffield	8
Slough	3
Southampton	13
Southend	28
St. Albans	2
Stafford	46
Swansea	6
Taunton	22
Telford	2
Torquay and Newton Abbot	10
Truro	7
Uxbridge	25
Watford	1
Wigan	4
York	1
Total	1,646

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

491 c1438-9W; 271815

Session

2008-09

Subjects

Debt collection

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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