Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of trends in the number of cases involving litigants in person since the changes to legal aid provision in 2012.

Information on numbers of litigants in person is not held centrally.

Unrepresented parties have always been a feature of the civil and family justice system. Since 2015, the Government has invested £5 million of funding to support litigants in person through a range of measures designed to provide additional information, support and guidance.