Probate: Standards
(asked on 22nd June 2026) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask His Majesty's Government what percentage of completed probate applications are granted within eight weeks.
Grants of representation1 issued within 8 weeks, England and Wales
2025
Source: HMCTS Core Case Data
| Total grants issued | Issued within 8 weeks of application submission2,5 |
| Issued within 8 weeks of document receipt3,4,5 | ||
Year | Count | % of total issued |
| Count | % of total issued | |
2025 | 295,417 | 240,505 | 81% |
| 248,268 | 84% |
Notes:
1) All grant types including letters of administration with/without a Will.
2) Timeliness figures are calculated from the date of application (which may be from an earlier period) to the date the grant was issued.
3) Timeliness figures are calculated from the date of document receipt (which may be from an earlier period) to the date the grant was issued.
4) Document receipt occurs after payment has been made and all accompanying paperwork has been received by HMCTS. As such, it does not reflect the entire case journey from when an application is submitted by the user to when a grant is received. Instead these figures reflect the timeliness from when HMCTS staff are able to start working on the case.
5) Includes cases up to and including 8 weeks (56 days)
Due to revisions these figures may differ slightly to those published in Family Court Statistics Quarterly