Question follow-through · 67472
Family Courts: Legal Costs
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will take steps to help support parents with the costs of the Family Court system.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 14 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 22 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will take steps to help support parents with the costs of the Family Court system.
16 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Jul 2025
Answer published
The Government is already taking steps to ensure that financial hardship does not prevent parents from engaging with the family court system. To support access to justice, the Help with Fees scheme provides full or partial remission of court and tribunal ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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