{"value":{"id":1835751,"askingMemberId":4320,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2025-09-16T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2025-10-14T00:00:00","uin":"77530","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) full time and (b) part time judges sit in immigration tribunals; and how much their remuneration costs the public purse each year.","answeringBodyId":54,"answeringBodyName":"Ministry of Justice","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":true,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":5204,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2025-10-14T00:00:00","answerText":"

The judiciary are responsible for publishing lists of judges. They do not routinely publish lists of fee-paid (part-time) judges due to the frequency of changes in the fee-paid judge cohort.

Information on the number of judges in post is published in the annual Judicial Diversity Statistics: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/judicial-diversity-statistics.

The current judicial salaries and fees are published annually: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/judicial-salaries-and-fees-2025-to-2026.

The total cost of judicial remuneration depends on the number of sittings per year. In 2024/25, the costs of judges sitting in the Immigration and Asylum Chambers of both the First-tier and Upper Tribunal were:

Basic Salary & Allowances £m

Employers' Pension Contributions £m

Total £m

Salaried Judges

17.6

11.0

28.6

Fee Paid Judges

11.1

6.8

17.9

Total

28.7

17.8

46.5

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