HC Deb 21 March 2003 vol 401 c986W
Mr. Mullin

To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department what plans he has to require new applicants for the magistrates and the judiciary to disclose membership of secret societies; and if he will make a statement. [102804]

Ms Rosie Winterton

All applicants for the lay magistracy and all those being offered an appointment for the first time to part-time or full-time judicial office are required to declare whether or not they are freemasons.

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