Question follow-through · 3422

Court of Protection: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent estimate he has made of the waiting time for an application for deputyship to be seen at the Court of Protection.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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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 recent estimate he has made of the waiting time for an application for deputyship to be seen at the Court of Protection.
1 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Jun 2026
Answer published
The current published Court of Protection statistics available on application disposal times (application received to order made timeliness), application volumes and order volumes are all on the Court of Protection tables, now separated out from the Famil...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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