Question follow-through · 63106
Legal Opinion: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing funding for specialist advice services.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 26 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 3 Jul 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing funding for specialist advice services.
30 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Jul 2025
Answer published
We recognise the importance of access to justice and the key role that legal advice and support services play in helping people resolve their legal issues.This year we have invested over £6 million of grant funding to 60 organisations in 2025-26, via the ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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