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Family Proceedings

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many open family cases there were in each Designated Family Judge area as of 23 July 2025, broken down by (a) public law and (b) private law; and what proportion of those cases involved litigants in person.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
29 Aug 2025
Target answer date
2 Sept 2025
Answer
8 Sept 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 29 Aug 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many open family cases there were in each Designated Family Judge area as of 23 July 2025, broken down by (a) public law and (b) private law; and what proportion of those cases involved litigants in person.

  2. 2 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 8 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    The information requested is provided in the data tables below up until 31 March 2025, aligning with the time period published in the Ministry of Justice’s official statistics. All data is taken from HMCTS administrative systems.Caseload data by Designate...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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