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Administration of Estates: Standards

Commons · Question 24953 · Tabled 28 Aug 2026 · Ministry of Justice · Official record

Answered 8 Sep 2026

Question

Asked by Zöe Franklin

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of applications for (a) grants of probate, (b) letters of administration with a will and (c) letters of administration without a will took more than (i) 26, (ii) 52 and (iii) 70 weeks

Answer

Answered by Alex Davies-Jones, 8 Sep 2026

The Ministry of Justice publishes regular data on probate timeliness and open caseload in the Probate Service in the quarterly Family Court Statistics bulletin, available at: Family Court Statistics Quarterly - GOV.UK. The published timeliness measure inc...