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FOI - 92301 / August 2014

Freedom of Information Request

You asked for the following information from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ):

“Statistics on how many people have appointed an LPA for health since the MCA was introduced (or any stats at all would be good ie if they were relatives, how many per year, are numbers increasing).”

Your request has been handled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).

I can confirm that the department holds information that you have asked for, and I am pleased to provide this to you.

Please note that this response will differ slightly to the response issued on 24 July 2012 as I have interpreted your original request differently, however I will provide all of the information that I can to correspond with the previous response.

Since the introduction of LPAs on 01 October 2007, when the Mental Capacity Act 2005 came into effect, 261,331 Health and Welfare LPAs were registered with the OPG. For additional information there have been 821,368 Property and Affairs LPAs registered since 01 October 2007. These figures include all LPAs entered onto the OPG registers as having ever been registered, including those which are no longer registered for any reason, and the figures were correct as at 3 p.m. on 11 August 2014.

To correspond with our response dated 24 July 2012, there are 251,115 currently registered LPAs for Health and Welfare. This figure includes only ‘live’ cases, and does not include LPAs which were registered and have since been revoked, withdrawn and cancelled for any reason. This also does not include cases where the OPG has not yet been notified that the donor or attorney(s) have died.

Please find below the tables detailing the numbers of LPAs for both Health and Welfare LPAs and Property and Affairs LPAs, broken down by the financial year in which they were registered. Kindly note there is a small proportion of cases where the date of registration cannot readily be identified on our system, without opening each case within that category and checking each registration date.

"Live" LPAs with a registered status as at 3 p.m. on 11 August 2014 / Grand total
1,031,522
2007/08 / Total / 932
Finance and Property / 763
Health and Welfare / 169
2008/09 / Total / 43,113
Finance and Property / 35,534
Health and Welfare / 7,579
2009/10 / Total / 75,864
Finance and Property / 62,567
Health and Welfare / 13,297
2010/11 / Total / 141,197
Finance and Property / 113,257
Health and Welfare / 27,940
2011/12 / Total / 171,926
Finance and Property / 133,624
Health and Welfare / 38,302
2012/13 / Total / 219,987
Finance and Property / 165,142
Health and Welfare / 54,845
2013/14 / Total / 253,984
Finance and Property / 182,837
Health and Welfare / 71,147
2014 – 3 p.m. 11/08/2014 / Total / 123,393
Finance and Property / 85,886
Health and Welfare / 37,507
Date of registration not identifiable / Total / 1,126
Finance and Property / 797
Health and Welfare / 329
Total LPAs ever registered by OPG as at 3 p.m. on 11 August 2014 / Grand total
1,082,699
2007/08 / Total / 1,073
Finance and Property / 885
Health and Welfare / 188
2008/09 / Total / 49,309
Finance and Property / 40,711
Health and Welfare / 8,598
2009/10 / Total / 84,813
Finance and Property / 70,043
Health and Welfare / 14,770
2010/11 / Total / 151,993
Finance and Property / 122,068
Health and Welfare / 29,925
2011/12 / Total / 182,335
Finance and Property / 141,907
Health and Welfare / 40,428
2012/13 / Total / 228,744
Finance and Property / 171,849
Health and Welfare / 56,895
2013/14 / Total / 259,239
Finance and Property / 186,726
Health and Welfare / 72,513
2014 – 3 p.m. 11/08/2014 / Total / 124,052
Finance and Property / 86,369
Health and Welfare / 37,683
Date of registration not identifiable / Total / 1,141
Finance and Property / 810
Health and Welfare / 331

It may be useful to note that some of this information is published on an annual basis for each financial year in the OPG Annual Report and Accounts, which can be accessed via