Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people resident in (a) Wales, (b) Gwent and (c) Newport received legal aid in each civil and criminal category in each year since 2010.

The Legal Aid Agency records the number of acts of assistance granted, rather than the number of people who have received public funding. One person may be granted more than one certificate.

Information on volumes of completed legal aid matters broken down by region, based on the location of the legal aid provider office, is published annually, which can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/626057/legal-aid-statistics-provider-and-area-data-2016-2017.csv

The information relevant to your specific question has been extracted into the attached Annex for ease of reference.