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Written Question
Department for Work and Pensions: Freedom of Information
Tuesday 31st May 2022

Asked by: Karen Buck (Labour - Westminster North)

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, with reference to the Answers of 7 April 2022 to Question 147025 and 26 April 2022 to Question 156349, on Department for Work and Pensions: Freedom of Information, if she will instruct the Government Legal Service to undertake an assessment of the basis for the Department for Work and Pensions' decision to withhold publication of the Prime Minister’s Implementation Unit’s report on the experiences of vulnerable people who have been claiming Universal Credit.

Answered by Alex Chalk

No investigation will be carried out by the Government Legal Profession.

If a person making a request under the Freedom of Information Act (2000) is not satisfied with a response, they may exercise their statutory rights of challenge under the Act, complaining to the ICO and then appealing to the First-tier Tribunal.

Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 14 Dec 2010
Legal aid

"I am delighted to have secured this important debate so soon after the publication of the legal aid Green Paper. It is a mark of how significant such issues are that there is a good attendance in the Gallery and that a number of Members of Parliament are present hoping …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 14 Dec 2010
Legal aid

"My right hon. Friend makes a good point. It is true that legal aid practitioners who take on institutions in the public sector, and sometimes the private sector, are significantly less well paid than those professionals who make the public policy decisions that they challenge.

It is important to put …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 14 Dec 2010
Legal aid

"I am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising that point and I will return in a moment to the issue of housing and homelessness.

Funding for judicial review is retained within the legal aid Green Paper. However, in many cases it is not based upon the legal help that …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 14 Dec 2010
Legal aid

"That is absolutely right, and I will deal with family law in a moment...."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 14 Dec 2010
Legal aid

"I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising that point; it will be one of the issues that I address. There is an argument in addition to the argument about how much we fund legal aid by. There is consensus that the budget cannot expand indefinitely, but there …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 14 Dec 2010
Legal aid

"As I said, the previous Labour Government had already made cuts to the legal aid budget, which were highly controversial. Many hon. Members who are in this Chamber made fierce representations on that point. I have already said that there were areas, particularly very high-cost criminal cases, in which the …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 14 Dec 2010
Legal aid

"I absolutely agree. I am extremely concerned. In other areas of public policy, we are seeing reductions in housing benefit expenditure and entitlement, which are coming in next year. There is, apparently, a rise in homelessness. There are major changes in housing policy, some of which were announced yesterday, which …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 14 Dec 2010
Legal aid

"That is absolutely right. I shall now sit down to listen to examples from, possibly, both sides of the Chamber. I urge the Minister to ask his colleagues to think again about how the changes are being implemented. The dangers are that they will lead to advice deserts and reduced …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 14 Dec 2010
Legal aid

"I thank the Solicitor-General for giving way. I was in error in my introduction to the debate in not welcoming him, given that he has graciously stepped in to cover the Minister whose area of responsibility legal aid is, the Under-Secretary of State for Justice, the hon. Member for Huntingdon …..."
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