Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effect on the morale of magistrates of HM Courts and Tribunals Service's decision to no longer deliver certificates of service to magistrates.

The issuing of long service certificates was paused temporarily in March due to Covid-19. Since July 2020, Judicial Office have been processing all outstanding long service certificates.

In addition to certificates for twenty years’ service, in October 2020, we introduced long service certificates to recognise both ten- and 30- years’ service within the magistracy. The implementation of these have been backdated until January 2020.