Probate
(asked on 9th October 2026) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 14 July 2026 to Question 16046 on Probate: Applications, what was the average time taken to issue a grant of probate to applications submitted in a) English and b) Welsh in each year since 2021.
Grants of representation1 time taken from application submission to grant issued by language submitted in, England and Wales | |||||||||
Annually 2021 to 2025 |
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Source: HMCTS Core Case Data |
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| Total Grants Issued2 |
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Year3 |
| Grants issued | Mean weeks | Median weeks |
| Grants issued | Mean weeks | Median weeks | |
2021 | 273,428 |
| 272,481 | 8.5 | 5.4 |
| 947 | 6.2 | 2.9 |
2022 | 269,812 |
| 269,029 | 8.8 | 6.1 |
| 783 | 6.0 | 2.9 |
2023 | 277,735 |
| 276,562 | 14.0 | 11.0 |
| 1,173 | 8.4 | 5.3 |
2024 | 328,446 |
| 326,762 | 10.0 | 5.0 |
| 1,684 | 11.0 | 8.7 |
2025 | 295,415 |
| 293,312 | 6.2 | 2.0 |
| 2,103 | 4.7 | 1.9 |
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Notes: |
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1) All grant types including letters of administration with/without a Will. |
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2) Total grants issued do not include where the grant type is not specified / missing. |
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3) Year refers to the date that grants were issued rather than application submission date. |
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Due to revisions these figures may differ slightly to those published in Family Court Statistics Quarterly. |
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