Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of magistrates has resigned in each month since January 2015.
The requested information is provided in the table below.
Month | Resignations | Proportion of total in post* |
Jan | 66 | 0.34 |
Feb | 46 | 0.24 |
Mar | 95 | 0.50 |
Apr | 80 | 0.42 |
May | 95 | 0.50 |
Jun | 92 | 0.48 |
Jul | 79 | 0.41 |
Aug | 69 | 0.36 |
Sep | 89 | 0.46 |
Oct | 80 | 0.42 |
Nov | 64 | 0.33 |
* There are approximately 19,000 magistrates in England and Wales.