Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 109427

Powers of Attorney

Tabled: 28 January 2026

Answered: 3 February 2026

Question

Lee Barron

Labour — Corby and East Northamptonshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the rationale for requiring separate applications for a Health and Welfare Lasting Power of Attorney and a Property and Financial Affairs Lasting Power of Attorney, where both pow

Answer

Alex Davies-Jones

A Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) allows a person (the donor) to choose people they trust (the attorney) to make decisions for them should they lose the mental capacity to make their own decisions. The Mental Capacity Act 2005 provides the legal framework...

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