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<p>HMCTS has several internal service standards which have been set as a result of
the action plan to recover performance in the probate service.</p><p>This includes
the overall interim target of reducing average waiting times to 8 weeks for a grant
of probate from the receipt of the documentation needed to process the application.</p><p>Management
information published by HMCTS (which does not go through the same level of quality
assurance and analysis as the Family Court Statistics Quarterly) shows the average
mean length of time taken for a grant of probate, from receipt of documentation, reduced
by 3 weeks in March 2024 to 9 weeks.</p><p>The digitisation of the probate service
has enabled HMCTS to significantly increase the range of performance data which is
available publicly by both MoJ and HMCTS and can now include more granular data on
types of application received and grants issued. In addition, average grant processing
time (timeliness) is published and can be interrogated using a range of filters.</p><p>A
full time series of Official Statistics back to Q3 2019 is published in the Family
Court Statistics Quarterly <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/family-court-statistics-quarterly"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/family-court-statistics-quarterly</a>
and currently covers the period up to December 2023.</p><p>More recent management
information published by HMCTS (which does not go through the same level of quality
assurance and analysis as the Family Court Statistics Quarterly) provides waiting
time information up to March 2023 <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmcts-management-information"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmcts-management-information</a>.</p>
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