Question follow-through · 73119
Children: Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department has made an estimate of how many child protection cases were impacted by missing documents reported in 2023.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 29 Aug 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 22 Sept 2025 · 24 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Aug 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department has made an estimate of how many child protection cases were impacted by missing documents reported in 2023.
2 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Sept 2025
Answer published
Given the important and sensitive work undertaken across the civil, family and tribunal jurisdictions, and the Social Security and Child Support (SSCS) Tribunal in particular, it is entirely understandable that there will be concern at reports of an IT bu...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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