To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs pursuant to her Answer of 30 April 2007, Official Report, column 1452W, on courts: manpower, what research has been undertaken into the reasons for court service staff leaving. (136486)

Data in relation to the reasons for leaving Her Majesty’s Courts Service are held on the HR IT system. The detail of why a person left is held locally and monitoring is carried out to assess trends and to decide any action that might need to be taken.

For the period April 2006 to March 2007 the reasons for leaving HMCS were: