Legal Aid Scheme

(asked on 24th April 2018) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 23 April 2018 to Question 136378, whether it is planned to review the legal aid means test threshold as part of the post-implementation review of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.


Answered by
Lucy Frazer Portrait
Lucy Frazer
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
This question was answered on 2nd May 2018

The government evaluates the civil and criminal means tests thresholds on an ongoing basis.

The post-implementation review of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (LASPO) 2012, will assess the impact of the relevant changes to the legal aid means test that were implemented as part of the reforms and inform wider consideration on the future of legal support in the justice system.

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