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Ms. Richardson
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many magistrates are (a) men and (b) women.
The Attorney-General
I have been asked to reply.As at 1 January 1990, there were 16,090 men and 12,577 women sitting as lay magistrates in England and Wales.