Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many judges retired in each of the last five years.

The number of judges in the courts and tribunals who retired in each of the last five financial years is:

Data for salaried judges who retired in the financial years 2018-2022 is taken from MoJ’s evidence provided to the Senior Salaries Review Body (SSRB) for the 2023 Annual Report on Senior Salaries (www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministry-of-justices-evidence-to-the-senior-salaries-review-body-2023).

#This data is the number of fee-paid judges who left office (including retirements, resignations and deaths in office) reported in the 2019 Diversity of the Judiciary statistics: https://www.judiciary.uk/about-the-judiciary/diversity/judicial-diversity-statistics/.

*This data is a subset of the data of judges who left office reported in the annual Diversity of the Judiciary statistics, which only reflects those who retired: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/diversity-of-the-judiciary-2023-statistics.