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<p>The Government Legal Service (GLS) is not a department but a grouping of the legal
profession within Government. Government lawyers take different forms; some are employed
by the Government Legal Department (GLD), others employed by regulators and organisations
at arm’s length from Government. The GLS is supported by a very small secretariat
of fewer than five staff and does not systematically collect information as data is
held by the lawyer’s own organisations. We are therefore unable to provide this information
for the GLS. There is data for the GLD, which is the single largest ‘member’ of the
GLS and the largest provider of legal services to government. As of 31 December 2016
the figures for the Government Legal Department are as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Number
of lawyers</p></td><td><p>1,400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of female lawyers</p></td><td><p>896</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number
of lawyers from ethnic minority communities *</p></td><td><p>187</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number
of female lawyers from ethnic minority communities *</p></td><td><p>132</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>*This
figure is obtained from the information that is voluntarily self-recorded by employees</p>
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