Crown Prosecution Service: Recruitment

(asked on 18th April 2023) - View Source

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, what steps the Crown Prosecution Service is taking to increase its number of legal trainees.


Answered by
Michael Tomlinson Portrait
Michael Tomlinson
Minister of State (Minister for Illegal Migration)
This question was answered on 26th April 2023

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) runs an award-winning and highly competitive legal trainee scheme that has seen hundreds of trainees undertake a training contract and/or pupillage across England and Wales with the CPS since 2012. The CPS has extended its post graduate qualification requirements, to include not only the LPC and Bar Qualification, but the new Solicitors Qualifying Examination, which opens a career in law to a broader and more diverse audience.

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