Legal Aid Scheme: Domestic Abuse
(asked on 16th October 2017) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many legal aid applications for civil cases of domestic violence have been made in each of the last six years.
This question was answered on 19th October 2017
This information is published on a quarterly basis as part of the Legal Aid Agency’s National Statistics, the most recent of which (covering the most recent six complete financial years) are reproduced below:
Financial Year | Applications in the ‘Domestic Violence’ category |
2011-12 | 17,652 |
2012-13 | 17,405 |
2013-14 | 16,925 |
2014-15 | 15,665 |
2015-16 | 14,754 |
2016-17 | 14,136 |