Peter Dowd – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Peter Dowd on 2016-09-02.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department plans that the recent proposals to allow Probate Registries to collect fees will (a) produce a surplus for the Department’s income and expenditure and (b) subsidise HM Courts and Tribunals Service.

Dr Phillip Lee

We are carefully considering the responses to our earlier consultation on this issue, and will set out further plans in due course.