Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lord Clarke of Nottingham and Lindsay Roy

Tuesday 29th March 2011 Commons Chamber

[Mr Clarke]

I think we need low-cost, quicker, simpler and more efficient procedures in most of the civil justice system. The statement that I hope to be allowed to make at half-past 3 will take that further in various ways. Defamation has never been eligible for legal aid, but anything that simplifies the process and gets more matters treated as preliminary questions will make it more accessible to the ordinary citizen when his reputation is unfairly tarnished.

[Lindsay Roy (Glenrothes) (Lab)]

10. How many foreign national prisoners he expects to have repatriated in 2011.