§ Mr. Alex Carlileasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what was the average delay between the filing of divorce petitions and the grantings of decrees nisi in undefended cases in the county courts in each of the years 1981, 1982 and 1983, respectively.
§ Mr. John PattenThe information requested is not collected.
The only information available relates to the interval between the date of filing a divorce petition and the date of the decree being made absolute, for all courts with divorce jurisdiction. Defended and undefended cases are not separately identified. On this basis, the average interval for decrees made absolute in the years 1981, 1982 and 1983 was 7.2, 7.3 and 7.5 months, respectively.