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448113

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Probate
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what estimate they have made of the annual cost of the Probate Registry and the yield from fee income.
	tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
	uin	HL5503
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>The cost of the Probate Registry in 2014/15 was £42.5m and the yield from fee income (after remission) was £41.5m.</p><p> </p><p>The costs relate to probate for “non-contentious” cases, that is where the Will is not in dispute.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 22/02/2016 12:27:21 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
	tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

519319

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Probate
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his Department's consultation on fee proposals for grants of probate, whether the proposed fees will reflect the (a) actual cost of administration of the Probate Registries and (b) amount of time expended by staff in the Probate Registries.
	tabling member constituency	Bootle
	tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
	uin	37182
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2016 answer text <p>The information requested can be found in the consultation document, published at: <a href="https://consult.justice.gov.uk/digital-communications/fee-proposals-for-grants-of-probate/consult_view" target="_blank">https://consult.justice.gov.uk/digital-communications/fee-proposals-for-grants-of-probate/consult_view</a></p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 24/05/2016 13:49:39 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
	tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

519320

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Probate
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his Department's consultation on fee proposals for grants of probate, what safeguards his Department plans to provide to enable applications to be filed for grants of probate in respect of estates which do not have sufficient liquid funds to enable payment of the fee before a grant has been issued.
	tabling member constituency	Bootle
	tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
	uin	37183
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2016 answer text <p>The information requested can be found in the consultation document, published at: <a href="https://consult.justice.gov.uk/digital-communications/fee-proposals-for-grants-of-probate/consult_view" target="_blank">https://consult.justice.gov.uk/digital-communications/fee-proposals-for-grants-of-probate/consult_view</a></p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 24/05/2016 13:52:18 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
	tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

519321

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Probate
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his Department's consultation on fee proposals for grants of probate, how fee income in excess of the costs of providing the Probate Registries service will be used.
	tabling member constituency	Bootle
	tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
	uin	37270
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2016 answer text <p>The information requested can be found at: <a href="https://consult.justice.gov.uk/digital-communications/fee-proposals-for-grants-of-probate/consult_view" target="_blank">https://consult.justice.gov.uk/digital-communications/fee-proposals-for-grants-of-probate/consult_view</a></p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 25/05/2016 12:52:14 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
	tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

573816

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Probate
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what safeguards her Department is providing to enable applications to be filed for Grants of Probate in respect of Estates which do not have sufficient liquid funds to pay fees to Probate Registries.
	tabling member constituency	Bootle
	tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
	uin	44514
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2016 answer text <p>We are carefully considering the responses to our earlier consultation on this issue, and will set out further plans in due course.</p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee grouped question UIN 44515 44516 question first answered 07/09/2016 16:22:41 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
	tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

573817

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Probate
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the recent proposals to allow Probate Registries to collect fees will reflect the actual cost of administration of the Probate Registries; and whether her Department plans that those fees will more accurately reflect the amount of time expended by staff in the Probate Registries.
	tabling member constituency	Bootle
	tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
	uin	44515
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2016 answer text <p>We are carefully considering the responses to our earlier consultation on this issue, and will set out further plans in due course.</p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee grouped question UIN 44514 44516 question first answered 07/09/2016 16:22:41 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
	tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

573818

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Probate
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department plans that the recent proposals to allow Probate Registries to collect fees will (a) produce a surplus for the Department's income and expenditure and (b) subsidise HM Courts and Tribunals Service.
	tabling member constituency	Bootle
	tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
	uin	44516
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2016 answer text <p>We are carefully considering the responses to our earlier consultation on this issue, and will set out further plans in due course.</p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee grouped question UIN 44514 44515 question first answered 07/09/2016 16:22:41 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
	tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

806043

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Probate
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time was between receipt of an application for grant of probate and the the grant being made in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Wrexham
	tabling member printed	Ian C. Lucas
	uin	119252
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2017 answer text <p>The information requested can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 18/12/2017 16:24:50 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
	tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

810123

	registered interest
	date	20/12/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Probate
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, by what criteria his Department measures the efficiency of the operation of the Probate Registry.
	tabling member constituency	Wrexham
	tabling member printed	Ian C. Lucas
	uin	120589
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>The efficiency of the operation of the Probate Service is measured by monitoring cost in relation to volume of work and by measuring performance against the two official key performance indicators (KPIs) for the service.</p><p> </p><p>Information showing performance against the Probate Service KPIs is available at <em>https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice/about/statistics</em></p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 08/01/2018 15:05:24 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
	tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

810121

	registered interest
	date	20/12/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Probate
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many applications for grant of probate have been made in each of the last five years for which records are available.
	tabling member constituency	Wrexham
	tabling member printed	Ian C. Lucas
	uin	120587
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>The information below provides details of the number of grants of probate issued by the Probate service in each of the last five years.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Total Number applications received</p></td><td><p>Total issued</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>254599</p></td><td><p>244977</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>272111</p></td><td><p>255502</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>254602</p></td><td><p>247040</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>285135</p></td><td><p>245870</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>261251</p></td><td><p>262233</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017 ( to end Nov)</p></td><td><p>278428</p></td><td><p>248816</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Since January 2015 the Information contained in the response in regards to number of applications for a grant that have issued is in the public domain and is published in the quarterly Family Court statistics.</p><p>Link to this information below:</p><p><strong><em><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice/about/statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice/about/statistics</a></em></strong></p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab grouped question UIN 120588 question first answered 08/01/2018 17:30:01 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
	tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas