Court of Protection: Standards
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent estimate he has made of the waiting time for an application for deputyship to be seen at the Court of Protection.
Answered by Catherine Atkinson
The current published Court of Protection statistics available on application disposal times (application received to order made timeliness), application volumes and order volumes are all on the Court of Protection tables, now separated out from the Family Court tables: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-court-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2025.
In the last calendar year Jan-Dec 2025, for Property and Affairs Deputyship applications, the average mean time from receipt to final order is 23.9 weeks with the median time 15.6 weeks.
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