Powers of Attorney: Registration
(asked on 24th July 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of Lasting Powers of Attorneys which were registered with the Office of Public Guardian in each year since 2010.
The below figures show the number of Powers of Attorney the Office of the Public Guardian has registered in each year since 2010. The figures are split into Enduring Powers of Attorney (EPA) (which could not be made after October 2007 but can still be registered) and Lasting Powers of Attorney (LPA). As of the end of March 2019 there are 3,847,008 POAs on the register of registered documents consisting of 159,356 EPAs and 3,687,652 LPAs.
| LPAs registered | EPAs registered | Total POAs registered |
2010-2011 | 151,629 | 18,752 | 170,381 |
2011-2012 | 181,302 | 16,405 | 197,707 |
2012-2013 | 229,852 | 16,783 | 246,635 |
2013-2014 | 257,257 | 15,056 | 272,313 |
2014-2015 | 390,952 | 14,012 | 404,964 |
2015-2016 | 471,350 | 13,060 | 484,410 |
2016-2017 | 632,696 | 11,786 | 644,482 |
2017-2018 | 698,461 | 10,058 | 708,519 |
2018-2019 | 739,650 | 9,432 | 749,092 |