Legal Aid Scheme: Children and Young People
(asked on 31st October 2017) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department spent on legal help and legal representation for (a) under 18 and (b) 18 to 24 year olds in each of the last seven years.
Civil Representation | ||
Financial year | Under 18 (£) | 18-24 (£) |
2010-2011 | 132,253,922 | 93,060,449 |
2011-2012 | 152,797,644 | 111,383,481 |
2012-2013 | 178,013,614 | 121,443,840 |
2013-2014 | 199,438,792 | 127,022,325 |
2014-2015 | 171,338,515 | 110,942,980 |
2015-2016 | 155,797,140 | 84,884,840 |
2016-2017 | 163,054,161 | 78,088,604 |
Note: The civil representation expenditure figures are based on cases closed within the financial years specified.
The cases shown within each financial year may have started and concluded within the same financial year, or started within a previous year.
Legal Help | ||
Financial year | Under 18 (£) | 18-24 (£) |
2010-11 | 13,090,278 | 35,202,873 |
2011-12 | 10,187,123 | 29,387,410 |
2012-13 | 7,582,376 | 24,894,974 |
2013-14 | 6,295,485 | 18,954,504 |
2014-15 | 6,848,206 | 16,416,212 |
2015-16 | 7,669,573 | 15,655,289 |
2016-17 | 8,786,974 | 15,988,592 |
Note: The Legal Help figures do not include expenditure on cases handled by the Civil Legal Advice specialist telephone service because it is not possible to calculate the age of clients from the data currently held for this area of work. In 2016/17 this area of work represented around 3% of total Legal Help expenditure.
Civil representation and Legal Help cover civil and family law but not criminal matters.