Question follow-through · 30383
Legal Aid Scheme: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an estimate of the number of people eligible for housing legal aid.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 10 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 18 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an estimate of the number of people eligible for housing legal aid.
12 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Feb 2025
Answer published
Legal aid is available for possession, evictions, homelessness and housing disrepair claims (when there is a serious risk of illness or injury) subject to a financial means test. Anyone in this situation should contact the Civil Legal Aid telephone helpli...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Pupils: Attendance
2 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many School Attendance Order (a) prosecutions and (b) fines there were under section 443 of the Education Act 1996 in each of the last 10 years.
Leasehold: Appeals
11 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will review the cost of leasehold tribunal applications.
Legal Aid Scheme: Leasehold
11 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the availability of free or pro-bono legal support for leaseholders involved in disputes with property management agents or freeholders.