Question follow-through · 67450
Legal Aid Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will consider the potential merits of conducting a review of the legal aid policy.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 14 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 22 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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- Opposition Day: Early release of prisoners · 7 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
14 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will consider the potential merits of conducting a review of the legal aid policy.
16 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Jul 2025
Answer published
The previous Government commissioned the Criminal Legal Aid Independent Review (CLAIR), chaired by Lord Bellamy KC in 2021, to provide analysis of the criminal legal aid system and explore the ways in which the Government could support its long-term susta...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Prisoners' Release
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14 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether their Department has run any (a) recruitment and (b) internship schemes aimed to increase the number of people from underrepresented groups in the workforce in the last year.