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One year Pulse Survey: SRA corporate strategy benchmarking – what drives confidence and trust in legal services?

We commissioned Thinks Insight & Strategy (Thinks) to conduct independent research to better understand how we can best achieve our mission, as well as benchmark views so we can assess progress over the life of the corporate strategy. 

Regulated population statistics

To provide our stakeholders with timely information about those we regulate, we publish key statistics about the population of solicitors and firms that we regulate. The statistics are updated monthly.

SQE Quality Assurance Report 2024-25

This is the fourth quality assurance report since the introduction of the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) in autumn 2021. Here we explain how we quality assured the SQE1 and SQE2 assessments delivered between October 2024 and July 2025.

SQE Independent Reviewer Annual Report 2025

The role of Independent Reviewer is to provide external assurance that the SQE assessments and outcomes are fair, defensible and will command public confidence. This report comments on the progress of recommendations made in my previous report published in March 2025.

Diversity in law firms' workforce

This report covers solicitors and other employees working in SRA-regulated law firms in England and Wales. It is based on diversity data collected from almost 100% of firms in summer 2025.

Breakdown of Welsh law firms' workforce diversity

This overview covers solicitors and other employees working in SRA-regulated law firms that have their head office in Wales. It is based on data collected from firms in summer 2025. It does not include branch offices located in Wales if the head office is in England.

Investigations and Enforcement – Diversity Monitoring Annual Report 2023/24

This is the sixth year where we have published findings on the diversity characteristics of people in our enforcement processes. Monitoring the diversity of people in our enforcement processes and taking action on the findings is a vital part of embedding equality, diversity and inclusion in the work we do.

Our equality, diversity and inclusion work Annual Report 2023/24

This report sets out the work we have carried out to promote EDI from November 2023 to October 2024.

Authorisation – Annual Report 2023/24

Information in relation to our authorisation work. It covers a range of annual data related to our work, including data about: the types of firms we regulate, applications to set up firms and answering ethics-related queries.

Investigations and enforcement – Annual Report 2023/24

This page provides information in relation to our investigations and enforcement work. It includes annual data on the number of reports we receive about firms and the type of enforcement action we took in the year.