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Question follow-through · 38958

Legal Aid Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to support legal professionals reliant on legal aid fees.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
18 Mar 2025
Target answer date
20 Mar 2025
Answer
27 Mar 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 18 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to support legal professionals reliant on legal aid fees.

  2. 20 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 27 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    This Government is committed to ensuring the long-term sustainability of both the civil and criminal legal aid sectors and we are keen to work closely with practitioners and their representative bodies to look at how best we can address this.Regarding cri...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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