Question follow-through · 104840
High Court: Telephone Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been employed to answer phone enquiries for the High Court in each of the last 5 years.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 12 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 14 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 23 Jan 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been employed to answer phone enquiries for the High Court in each of the last 5 years.
14 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jan 2026
Answer published
HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) HR does not hold information relating to people employed to answer phone enquiries for the High Court. This is because answering telephone enquiries is a responsibility spanning multiple different role profiles.No...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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