Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the (a) number and (b) proportion of applicants that were successfully awarded civil legal aid in each quarter since 2012.
Information is already publicly accessible via the Ministry of Justice’s published data for the Legal Aid Agency, which is available online at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/legal-aid-statistics-april-to-june-2018.
Civil application data is recorded in tables 1.2, 5.1, 6.1 and 7.2, and criminal application data in 3.1 and 3.2 of ‘Legal aid statistics England and Wales tables April to June 2018’,
Please note that for civil ‘Controlled Work’ the application process is devolved to the provider, and therefore proportional figures do not exist for that scheme. Thus, the proportion of successful applications may only be calculated for civil representation using columns AB and BC of table 6.1.
The Legal Aid Agency tracks volumes by application not by applicant, as one individual may receive legal aid on multiple occasions for different cases. Figures are therefore given on a ‘total number of applications’ basis.
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Information showing the Legal Aid Agency’s real-term spending on legal aid is already publicly available via published statistical data here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/legal-aid-statistics-april-to-june-2018
Please select the second document listed: ‘Legal Aid statistics England and Wales tables April to June 2018’, and the information can be located on table 1.0 at columns L to O.