Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 20 Jan 2022 to Question 105554, what estimate he has made of the ages of judges who have left office before retirement age in each year since 2018.

The average age of judges, both salaried and fee-paid, who left the judiciary before retirement age for any reason is as follows:

• 2018-19: 65.9 for courts judges, 64.2 for tribunals judges
• 2019-20: 65.4 for courts judges, 64.5 for tribunals judges
• 2020-21: 64.7 for courts judges, 64.3 for tribunals judges

These periods run from 01 April to 31 March.

Retirement age is taken to mean the current judicial mandatory retirement age of 70 years. Therefore, these averages are based on those leaving the judiciary on any date before their 70^th birthday. Those who left on or after their 70^th birthday are not included.

This data is taken from the Diversity of the Judiciary annual statistics.