Question follow-through · 99516
CAFCASS: Accountability
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has recently considered measures to improve the accountability of CAFCASS.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 12 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 19 Dec 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has recently considered measures to improve the accountability of CAFCASS.
16 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Dec 2025
Answer published
As a Non-Departmental Public Body sponsored by the Ministry of Justice, the oversight and assurance arrangements for Cafcass are carried out in accordance with the Arms-Length Body Code of Practice. Specific areas of oversight are also covered in the Fram...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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