Justice written question – answered at on 30 April 2009.
Denis Murphy
Labour, Wansbeck
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many licensed bailiffs there are in each parliamentary constituency.
Bridget Prentice
Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Ministry of Justice
HM Courts Service does not collect numbers of bailiffs in each parliamentary constituency. The following table sets out the numbers of certificated bailiffs who hold currently valid certificates which have been granted by county courts in England and Wales. My officials regularly update these data on the basis of information provided by the county courts. These data are a snapshot of those returns received at any one point in time and those presented as follows are the latest available figures.
| County c ourt | Bailiffs |
| Aldershot and Farnham | 1 |
| Altrincham | 13 |
| Bedford | 4 |
| Birkenhead | 23 |
| Birmingham | 27 |
| Bournemouth | 19 |
| Bradford | 8 |
| Brighton | 19 |
| Bristol | 11 |
| Bromley | 35 |
| Burnley | 177 |
| Caernarfon | 18 |
| Cambridge | 1 |
| Canterbury | 4 |
| Cardiff | 2 |
| Chelmsford | 7 |
| Chester | 1 |
| Chichester | 15 |
| Clerkenwell and Shoreditch | 150 |
| Colchester | 1 |
| Coventry | 1 |
| Croydon | 99 |
| Dartford | 27 |
| Derby | 4 |
| Doncaster | 2 |
| Edmonton | 5 |
| Epsom | 17 |
| Exeter | 5 |
| Gateshead | 23 |
| Guildford | 1 |
| Harrogate | 1 |
| Haverfordwest | 2 |
| Huddersfield | 27 |
| Ipswich | 3 |
| King's Lynn | 2 |
| Kingston-upon-Hull | 9 |
| Lambeth | 3 |
| Leeds | 7 |
| Leicester | 10 |
| Lincoln | 6 |
| Liverpool | 25 |
| Luton | 8 |
| Macclesfield | 5 |
| Manchester | 29 |
| Medway | 24 |
| Merthyr Tydfil | 73 |
| Middlesbrough | 54 |
| Milton Keynes | 13 |
| Morpeth and Berwick | 3 |
| Newport (Gwent) | 4 |
| Northampton | 91 |
| Norwich | 11 |
| Nottingham | 9 |
| Oldham | 27 |
| Oxford | 8 |
| Peterborough | 6 |
| Plymouth | 2 |
| Preston | 4 |
| Reading | 7 |
| Redditch | 266 |
| Romford | 7 |
| Scarborough | 2 |
| Sheffield | 8 |
| Slough | 3 |
| Southampton | 13 |
| Southend | 28 |
| St. Albans | 2 |
| Stafford | 46 |
| Swansea | 6 |
| Taunton | 22 |
| Telford | 2 |
| Torquay and Newton Abbot | 10 |
| Truro | 7 |
| Uxbridge | 25 |
| Watford | 1 |
| Wigan | 4 |
| York | 1 |
| Total | 1,646 |
Yes5 people think so
No3 people think not
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