Question follow-through · 3519
Probate Service: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to improve transparency and reduce delays in the probate service.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 20 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 1 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 1 Jun 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to improve transparency and reduce delays in the probate service.
1 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Jun 2026
Answer published
The Ministry of Justice publishes regular data on probate timeliness and open caseload in our quarterly Family Court statistics bulletin: Family Court Statistics Quarterly - GOV.UK.HMCTS publishes recent management information (which does not go through t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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