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<p>Ministry of Justice (MOJ) does not routinely hold data on barristers’ specialisms.
However as part of the Criminal Legal Aid Review, MOJ worked with the Bar Council
and other stakeholders to combine key datasets which were summarised in a published
<a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/960290/data-compendium.pdf"
target="_blank">Data compendium</a>. This shows that the number of barristers in England
and Wales who reported themselves as specialising in crime, and who carried out some
publicly-funded criminal work, was 2,780 in 2018-19 and 2,690 in 2019-20 (<a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/960291/data-compendium-tables.ods"
target="_blank">Table 5.3</a>). Comparable data is not available prior to 2018-19.</p><p><a
href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/960291/data-compendium-tables.ods"
target="_blank">Table 5.13</a> shows that, in 2019-20, 87% of this group were junior
barristers and 13% were QCs.</p>
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