Freedom of Information Request
You asked for the following information from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ):
“Under the Freedom of Information Act, I request the following information.
- The total number of member who are legal, medical and lay members of the First Tier Mental Health Tribunal for England.
- The ethnicity of all legal, medical and lay members. (England only)”
Your request has been handled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).
I can confirm that the department holds information that you have asked for and this is contained in Annex A.
Annex A
Legal / Medical / LayTotal members by type / 384 / 304 / 253
Ethnicity statistics *
Legal members / Medical member / Lay members
Any other background / 7 / 11 / 7
Arab / 0 / 1 / 2
Asian or Asian British- other / 2 / 22 / 0
Asian or Asian British-Bangladeshi / 1 / 1 / 0
Asian or Asian British-Indian / 3 / 66 / 4
Asian or Asian British-Pakistani / 0 / 12 / 2
Black or Black British - African / 2 / 5 / 2
Black or Black British - Caribbean / 1 / 0 / 3
Black or Black British - other / 0 / 0 / 1
Chinese/Chinese British / 0 / 2 / 3
Mixed - other / 0 / 1 / 1
Mixed - White & Asian / 1 / 1 / 0
Mixed - White & Black African / 0 / 1 / 0
Mixed - White & Black Caribbean / 2 / 1 / 0
Not declared / 1 / 6 / 5
Other ethnic group - Arab / 0 / 5 / 0
White - British / 90 / 57 / 65
White - English / 85 / 55 / 95
White - Irish / 2 / 12 / 5
White - Other / 6 / 12 / 7
White - Scottish / 4 / 7 / 5
White - Welsh / 4 / 5 / 5
White- English/W/S/NI/British / 1 / 12 / 1
*Information based on 2012 statistics
The ethnicity statistics are based on members who have the First Tier Tribunal Mental Health as their primary appointment. We do not hold the information on members if they sit for another Tribunal
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