Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, who is responsible for the collection of data on families, their cases and the time in which they are within the justice system.

Her Majesty’s Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) administers the Family Court and is responsible for recording and monitoring data of family cases on the main case management system. HMCTS use a system of standard operating procedures and data quality checks to ensure the effectiveness of recording data across HMCTS. Data is then extracted each month into a management information system (MIS).

The Ministry of Justice use the data to produce the Family Court Statistics Quarterly bulletin which publishes workload and timeliness statistics for the Family Court.

Data on timeliness in care proceedings are also published on the Open Justice website at Designated Family Judge level.