HC Deb 19 May 1988 vol 133 cc547-9W
Mr. Bermingham

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the number of vacancies at the latest available date for(a) justices clerks and (b) other staff in magistrates courts in the area of each magistrates court committee.

Mr. John Patten

There are no vacancies for justices' clerks. The latest date for which information is available for other staff is 1 April 1987, the information drawn from a survey conducted by the joint negotiating committee for magistrates courts staff. This information is set out in the table. The information for staff vacancies as at 1 April 1988 is not yet available.

Magistrates' Courts staff vacancies11 April 1987
Magistrates' Courts Committee Vacancies
Avon 0
Bedfordshire 6
Berkshire n/a
Buckinghamshire 1
Cambridgeshire 0
Cheshire 0
Cleveland 3
Cornwall 0
Cumbria 1
Derbyshire 4
Devon n/a
Dorset 0
Durham 0
East Sussex 3
Essex n/a
Gloucestershire n/a
Hampshire 15
Hereford/Worcester 0
Hertfordshire n/a
Humberside 4
Isle of Wight 1
Kent 9
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 6
Lincolnshire 0
Norfolk n/a
Northamptonshire n/a
Northumberland 1
North Yorkshire 1
Nottinghamshire n/a
Oxfordshire n/a
Shropshire 1
Somerset 0
Staffordshire 3
Suffolk 0
Surrey 2
Warwickshire 0
West Sussex 0
Wiltshire 4
Clwyd 0
Dyfed 2
Gwent n/a
Gwynedd 0
Mid Glamorgan 0
Powys 0
South Glamorgan 0
West Glamorgan n/a
Barnsley 1
Birmingham 5
Bolton 0
Bradford 0
Bury 0
Calderdale 2
Coventry 0
Doncaster 2
Dudley 0
Gateshead 0
Kirklees/Huddersfield 0
Knowlsey 0
Leeds 1
Liverpool 8
Manchester 1
Newcastle n/a
North Tyneside 3
Oldham 0
Magistrates' Courts Committee Vacancies
Rotherham n/a
Rochdale 2
St. Helens 1
Salford 2
Sandwell 0
Sefton 2
Sheffield 1
Solihull 0
South Tyneside 4
Stockport 1
Sunderland 3
Tameside 1
Trafford 0
Wakefield 0
Walsall 0
Wigan 1
Wirral 0
Wolverhampton 0
Barking/Dagenham 0
Barnet 1
Bexley 1
Brent n/a
Bromley 3
Croydon 0
Ealing n/a
Enfield 0
Haringey 0
Harrow 1
Havering 0
Hillingdon 0
Hounslow 1
Kingston n/a
Merton 1
Newham n/a
Redbridge 1
Richmond 5
Sutton 0
Waltham Forest 7
Uxbridge 0
Inner London 34
City of London n/a
1 Excluding justices' clerks.
n/a = Not available.