Women Judges

HC Deb 19 February 1993 vol 219 cc350-1W

Mrs. Gorman

To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department how many(a) Lords of Appeal, (b) heads of division, (c) High Court, for each of its three divisions, (d) Crown court, (e) circuit and (f) district judges and stipendiry magistrates there are in total; and how many in each category are women.

Mr. John M. Taylor

The total number and the number of women in these categories as at 1 February 1993 were as follows:

	Men	Women	Total
Lords of Appeal in Ordinary	10	0	10
Lords Justices of Appeal	27	1	28
Heads of divisions(excluding the Lord Chancellor)	4	0	4

	Men	Women	Total
High court judges	79	4	83
of whom: Chancery Division	13	0	13
Family Division	13	2	15
Queen's Bench Division	53	2	55
Circuit judges	463	24	487
District judges	250	19	269
Metropolitan stipendiary magistrates	41	7	48
Provincial stipendiary magistrates	28	2	30

Circuit judges sit in both county courts and the crown court.