§ Mr. Roseasked the Attorney-General how many staff are currently serving as clerks to supplementary benefit tribunals, national insurance local tribunals, industrial tribunals, and magistrates' courts, respectively.
§ Mr. Alec JonesI have been asked to reply.
There are 120 supplementary benefit appeal tribunals, which are served by 28 full-time clerks; a further 20 officers are designated as reserve clerks and are employed as clerks when the necessity arises.
Each national insurance local tribunal, of which there are 189, is served by a part-time clerk.
464WI understand from my hon. Friend the Minister of State for Employment that 78 officers are employed either full-time or part-time as clerks to industrial tribunals in England and Wales, and Scotland.
Magistrates' courts are a matter for my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary, and he has informed me that in England and Wales there are 402 justices' clerks.