Legal Aid Scheme

(asked on 7th November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of the Government funding for legal aid is spent on court fees.


Answered by
Dominic Raab Portrait
Dominic Raab
This question was answered on 15th November 2017

Legal aid providers may claim for court fees under Licensed Work. The amounts claimed will be definitively recorded against claims paid on cases registered after 1 April 2016.

However, court fees cannot yet be distinguished from other categories of disbursement for the majority of cases because of the way they were recorded on previous data systems.

What information is identifiable could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

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