Wills: Reform
Commons · Question 53440 · Tabled 19 May 2025 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 27 May 2025
Question
Asked by Ayoub Khan
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the proposals in Law Commission’s report entitled Modernising Wills Law, published on 15 May 2025.
Answer
Answered by Sarah Sackman, 27 May 2025
The Government has welcomed the Law Commission’s comprehensive report on the law of making a will and will be giving the report careful consideration.This is the first major review of the law on making wills since the Wills Act 1837, and the reforms propo...