Legal Profession: Employment
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of the legal services sector on (a) levels of employment and (b) gross value added.
Answered by Sarah Sackman
The UK legal services sector is an important contributor to the economy. In 2023, the sector contributed £37 billion to the UK economy, equivalent to 1.6% of the real GVA, and posted a trade surplus of £7.6 billion.
Additionally, in 2022, the UK’s legal services sector employed around 368,000 people across the country. Leading centres of legal services sector employment include London (133,000) Manchester (13,000), Birmingham (12,000), Leeds (9,000), Edinburgh and Glasgow (7,000), Sheffield and Cardiff (4,500), and Belfast (3,344).
This information can be found in TheCityUK’s legal services report (December 2024): uk-legal-services-2024-legal-excellence-internationally-renowned.pdf
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