Question follow-through · 94598
Child Trust Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his department has made of the key legal or administrative obstacles to solving the Locked Child Trust fund issue.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 25 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 1 Dec 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Justice and policing
- Child Trust Fund · 10 Dec 2025
- Members: Correspondence · 10 Mar 2026
- Probate Service: Telephone Services · 28 Aug 2026
- Probate Service: Telephone Services · 28 Aug 2026
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Recorded timeline
25 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his department has made of the key legal or administrative obstacles to solving the Locked Child Trust fund issue.
27 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Dec 2025
Answer published
It is a longstanding common law principle that an adult requires legal authority to manage property belonging to another adult. This principle has existed long before Child Trust Funds and the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and is crucial when the individual in...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Child Trust Fund
10 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the answer of 1 December 2025 to question 94597, what information his Department holds on the proportion of the 80,000 families affected by locked Child Trust Funds who will have gained access to thos
Members: Correspondence
10 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to reply to the correspondence from the hon. Member for Horsham of 6 January 2026.
Probate Service: Telephone Services
28 Aug 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to improve efficiencies in the probate system specifically pertaining to phone waiting times.
Probate Service: Telephone Services
28 Aug 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, a) when did the department last make a review of staffing adequacy with regard to the Probate Service telephone service and b) when is the next review due.