Court of Protection
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to improve timescales for cases in the Court of Protection.
Answered by Alex Davies-Jones
HMCTS is working to increase overall system capacity to reduce processing times. Measures taken include a targeted action plan to allocate additional administrative resources in response to higher demand, as well as training and upskilling new staff. Additional judicial sitting days have been added to support performance improvement. HMCTS is also working on improvements to the new case management system, to help reduce overall end-to-end processing times.
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