Immigration: Appeals
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he plans to publish a list of all (a) fee-paid and (b) part-time judges sitting in the immigration tribunals.
Answered by Sarah Sackman
The judiciary are responsible for publishing lists of judges. They do not routinely publish lists of fee-paid (part-time) judges due to the frequency of changes in the fee-paid judge cohort.
Information on the number of judges in post is published in the annual Judicial Diversity Statistics: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/judicial-diversity-statistics.
The current judicial salaries and fees are published annually: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/judicial-salaries-and-fees-2025-to-2026.
The total cost of judicial remuneration depends on the number of sittings per year. In 2024/25, the costs of judges sitting in the Immigration and Asylum Chambers of both the First-tier and Upper Tribunal were:
| Basic Salary & Allowances £m | Employers' Pension Contributions £m | Total £m |
Salaried Judges | 17.6 | 11.0 | 28.6 |
Fee Paid Judges | 11.1 | 6.8 | 17.9 |
Total | 28.7 | 17.8 | 46.5 |
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