Magistrates: Milton Keynes

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs how many applications to sit as a magistrate in Milton Keynes were (a) received and (b) accepted from each ethnic group in each of the last five years. (104623)

The numbers of applications received are not recorded centrally. Appointments to the magistracy in each ethnic group in each of the last five years are:

	White	Mixed	Asian	Black	Any other
2001-02	13	0	0	0	1
2002-03	9	1	0	1	0
2002-04	9	0	1	3	0
2004-05	12	0	1	0	0
2005-06	12	0	1	0	0
Totals	55	1	3	4	1

Volume 454: debated on Wednesday 6 December 2006