Legal Aid Scheme
(asked on 9th February 2021) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish a list of (a) criminal legal aid providers and (b) civil legal aid providers as of March 2020.
This question was answered on 22nd February 2021
A list of current contracted legal aid providers is published at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/directory-of-legal-aid-providers.
As at March 2020, there were 1,500 firms who held a civil legal aid contract, and 1,150 who held a criminal legal aid contract.
The details of those providers are attached.