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<p>Her Majesty’s Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) internal management information
(which is not subject to the rigorous quality assurance processes of official statistics)
has been used to show average times from receipt of an application to a grant being
issued in February 2020.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Measure </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Average
Weeks to issued </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Median to issue </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Submission
to issue for all grants issued in the month (including those stopped for queries or
missing documentation)</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>From
submission to issue for grants issued in the month that were not stopped.</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>These
figures include applications made via the online service and use the receipt date
of the digital application for recording the time of issue, rather than the time the
necessary supporting documentation is sent to HMCTS in order to start processing the
application. The data has been extracted from the HMCTS Reform Core Case Data system,
which is a new system in active development, and may not be directly comparable with
figures for earlier periods.</p><p>Probate users can telephone the national Courts
and Tribunal Service Centres with queries relating to Probate applications. In the
month of February 2020, calls were answered within 3 minutes on average.</p><p>Official
statistics are not held or published on the average length of time to grant probate
after the filing of an inheritance tax form.</p>
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