Question follow-through · 77882
Family Proceedings: Legal Aid Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing payment rates for legal aid in family law cases, in the context of his Department's decision to uplift the rates paid for all housing and immigr
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 16 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 14 Oct 2025 · 28 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing payment rates for legal aid in family law cases, in the context of his Department's decision to uplift the rates paid for all housing and immigr
13 Oct 2025
Target answer date
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14 Oct 2025
Answer published
This Government is committed to ensuring the long-term sustainability of civil legal aid, including family legal aid, and we are keen to work closely with practitioners and their representative bodies to look at how best we can address this.Between Januar...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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