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Legal Aid Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department plans to (a) review and (b) reform civil legal aid.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
30 Aug 2024
Target answer date
3 Sept 2024
Answer
9 Sept 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 30 Aug 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department plans to (a) review and (b) reform civil legal aid.

  2. 3 Sept 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 9 Sept 2024

    Answer published

    We are committed to ensuring the long-term sustainability of the civil legal aid sector and are keen to work closely with practitioners and their representative bodies to look at how best we can address this.We want to understand the different ways in whi...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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