Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask His Majesty's Government for how many hours the (1) Family Court, and (2) Family Division of the High Court, sat in (a) 2023, and (b) 2024.

The Ministry of Justice does not hold the data for hours sat as family sittings for both the County Court and the High Court are recorded in days. This data can be found in the Royal Courts of Justice Annual Tables, table 9.2 as below:

Notes:

1. These figures represent only the days sat in court or in chambers in the jurisdictions shown. Judges sit in other areas (for example, High Court hearings in regional County Courts are not currently included) and also undertake a range of other functions outside the courtroom that are not shown here.

2. Includes Private and other family figures including family: divorce sitting days.

HMCTS does not hold data on how many cases were heard in the Family Court and Family Division of the High Court. However, data on the total number of cases disposed of, which includes both hearings and out of court disposals are in table 1 of the Family Court Statistics as shown below:

Source: HMCTS FamilyMan and Core Case Data