On 20th October, Rehman submitted the following written question:
"To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many criminal barristers there were in each of the last 10 years."
Alex Chalk MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Ministry of Justice, provided the following response on 28th October:
"The legal services sector in England and Wales is independent of government. The Ministry of Justice does not currently hold this information. As part of the Criminal Legal Aid Review we have been working closely with the Legal Aid Agency, Bar Council and the Crown Prosecution Service to bring together a dataset on publicly funded criminal barristers. We intend to publish the results of this analysis during the next phase of the review."
