Question follow-through · 87967
Social Security and Child Support Tribunal
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the impact of waiting times at the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support Chamber) on claimants’ financial wellbeing.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 4 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 17 Nov 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Justice and policing
- Family Courts: Reform · 11 Feb 2026
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Recorded timeline
4 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the impact of waiting times at the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support Chamber) on claimants’ financial wellbeing.
11 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Nov 2025
Answer published
Data on Tribunals performance is published by the Ministry of Justice on a quarterly basis. Receipts, disposals and the outstanding caseload for individual Chambers in the First-tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal, the Employment Tribunal and the Employment ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Family Courts: Reform
11 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans his Department has to reform the family court system; and whether such reforms will include strengthening enforcement powers where child arrangement orders have been breached.
Domestic Abuse Protection Orders
20 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what evaluation criteria he is using to assess the impact of the Domestic Abuse Protection Order pilot on people against whom orders are sought.
Probate: Standards
29 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that emergency applications for grants of probate are processed promptly; and whether he has made an assessment of the impact of staffing levels at the Probate Servic