Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an estimate of the proportion of unprocessed probate applications that include legacies to charities.

Management Information on the open workable caseload is published in Table 5 here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmcts-management-information. Data below national level is not available.

Bequests to charities do not influence the probate process, so HMCTS does not collect this data. However, HMCTS works closely with charity representative organisations to help them forecast their legacy income. This includes regular meetings to provide them with additional insight into performance data and forecasts on receipts and grant production levels, so that they can provide guidance to their member organisations.