Family Courts
(asked on 4th April 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many family court centres have stopped operating in each region of the UK in each year since 2010.
Her Majesty’s Courts & Tribunals Service is responsible for the administration of the family courts in England and Wales only.
The structure of the family court was changed by the creation of the Single Family Court in April 2014 which led to the creation of Designated Family Courts New family courts, East London and West London Family Courts were established as part of these reforms and these courts, and the Central Family Courts, absorbed much of the work which had previously been dealt with at twenty three County and Family Proceedings Courts. It is not possible to provide details of court closures prior to April 2014.
Details of family court closures from 2014-2019 are set out in the table below:
Location | 2014 (from 22 April 2014) | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 (to 5 April 2019) |
London | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Midlands | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
North East | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
North West | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
South East | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
South West | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Wales | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
National | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |