Question follow-through · 89620
Family Proceedings: Expert Evidence
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of updating the level of remuneration for expert witnesses in family cases.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 11 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 17 Nov 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of updating the level of remuneration for expert witnesses in family cases.
17 Nov 2025
Target answer date
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17 Nov 2025
Answer published
Between January 2023 and March 2025, the Ministry of Justice undertook a comprehensive review of civil legal aid. This included family legal aid. The evidence from the review indicated that the housing and debt, and immigration and asylum sectors face par...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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Terrorism
19 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the report on the Southport attack by the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a new offence of planning a mass