Family Proceedings

(asked on 16th December 2020) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many family law cases were outstanding in each month of this year.


Answered by
Baroness Scott of Bybrook Portrait
Baroness Scott of Bybrook
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
This question was answered on 4th January 2021

HM Courts and Tribunals Service publishes management information on workload and timeliness within the family courts on a monthly basis. This includes the number of outstanding cases which have been receipted but not yet disposed of at the end of each month.

The following table details the number of private family law (children) cases and public family law cases outstanding at the end of each month of this year. This presents the most current data at the time of responding.

Month

Private Family Law – outstanding cases

Public Family Law – outstanding cases

January 2020

51,906

18,841

February 2020

53,844

19,367

March 2020

56,378

19,958

April 2020

58,819

19,626

May 2020

62,528

20,478

June 2020

66,271

21,156

July 2020

69,993

21,915

August 2020

73,126

22,390

September 2020

72,812

22,881

This information is extracted from HMCTS case management systems and as management information, it is not subject to the same quality assurance process as official statistics. The latest HMCTS management information report (October 2020) can be accessed at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/hmcts-management-information-october-2020.

The information relating to outstanding private family law case excludes applications made under the Family Law Act 1996. This information is not published.

Information about the volume of outstanding divorce applications each month is not published. However, this HMCTS management information report does contain other data about the management of divorce applications.

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