§ Mr. GerrardTo ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department for each of the area 9W advisory committees on justices of the peace in the Greater London area, how many applications were received to become a JP in each of the last three years for which statistics are available; how many of these applications were from ethnic minority applicants; how
Area Advisory Committee Number of applications received Number of appointments Number of ethnic minority applicants appointed 1992 1993 1994 1992 1993 1994 1992 1993 1994 Inner London 140 173 149 75 88 72 9 21 11 City of London 23 23 12 10 10 6 2 0 1 South west London 93 84 73 24 32 35 4 3 1 South east London 96 71 83 33 19 23 3 2 3 North east London 166 132 111 37 48 42 8 9 8 Middlesex 262 103 162 97 29 56 4 11 16 No figures are available to show how many of the total applications were from ethnic minority applicants.