To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) directors, (b) senior managers, (c) specialist and delivery managers and (d) executive support and administration staff there were in each HM Courts Service office in each of the last five years. (279290)

A breakdown of the number of SCS and non-SCS staff (full-time equivalent) in each HM Court Service office in the last two years (as at 31 March 2008 and 2009) will be placed in the Library of the House. A new pay deal was introduced in August 2007 that unified a set of terms and conditions across the Ministry.

With the creation of HM Courts Service in 2005 MOJ inherited all unaligned legacy terms and conditions for magistrates, crown and county courts including the pay scales which were not renegotiated until the 2007 pay deal.

To break these down into the requested categories at court level would incur disproportionate cost.