Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Constitutional Affairs – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 18 October 2005.
Bridget Prentice
Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs
2:30,
18 October 2005
The proportion of women sitting as judges in courts in England and Wales has risen from 10 per cent. in April 1998 to nearly 17 per cent. last month. This month, there has been a net increase of one in both the Court of Appeal and the High Court, but there is obviously much more to do.
