Probate: Staff

(asked on 2nd September 2020) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many full-time equivalent staff were employed in probate offices in March (a) 2018, (b) 2019 and (c) 2020.


Answered by
Chris Philp Portrait
Chris Philp
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 11th September 2020

The information requested as to the number of full time equivalent staff employed in probate offices can be found in the table below.

Probate FTE broken down per site between 2018-2020 1, 2

Probate

Dec.18

Mar.19

Mar.20

Courts and Tribunal Service Centre (Birmingham)

0

18

91

Birmingham Registry

10

7

0

Oxford Registry

16

16

16

Manchester Registry

16

15

15

London Registry

13

12

13

Cardiff Registry

18

18

13

Leeds Registry

10

11

4

Liverpool Registry

13

13

8

Newcastle Registry

20

21

22

Winchester Registry

12

12

9

Brighton Registry

14

10

10

Ipswich Registry

8

5

6

Bristol Registry

3

3

5

Registrars

3

3

3

Total

156

164

215

Source: CTSC and NBC workforce management resourcing data

1) NBC resourcing plans did not break down per registry prior to December 2018. Table is reflective of when the data was broken down with no material change to the total FTE from March 2018 (153 FTE) - December 2018 156 FTE).

2) CTSC data only available from go live in 2019.

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