Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of the potential number of people who would choose to self-represent in court as a result of changes to the small claims track limit.
The Government published a validated impact assessment alongside the Civil Liability Bill on 20 March 2018. It contains analysis, data and assumptions including the likely number of self-represented personal injury claimants following implementation of the measures being taken forward in the Bill and also the supplementary measures to increase the small claims limit for personal injury claims. The Impact Assessment is available at: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/lbill/2017-2019/0090/whiplash-IA.pdf.