Question follow-through · 13165
Probate: Charitable Donations
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an estimate of the total cash amount of legacy income due to charities in unprocessed probate applications.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 8 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 12 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 18 Nov 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an estimate of the total cash amount of legacy income due to charities in unprocessed probate applications.
12 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Nov 2024
Answer published
Management Information on the open workable caseload is published in Table 5 here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmcts-management-information. Data below national level is not available.Bequests to charities do not influence the probate proces...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Crown Court and Family Courts
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Intestacy
9 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of data collected on intestacy for the purposes of understanding regional differences in access to will-making and estate planning.