Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have represented themselves in cases related to (a) divorce, (b) child custody, (c) clinical negligence, (d) welfare, (e) employment, (f) immigration, (g) housing,(h) debt, (i) benefits and (j) education in each year since 2010.

The information requested in these PQs has been requested by Legal Aid Agency case category, however published statistics are available by HM Courts & Tribunals Service jurisdictions.

The Department publishes County Court, Family Court and Crown Court figures on defendants or parties with no (or unknown) representation. This data does not represent the number of litigants in person, however, because a party may be without representation for only part of a case. Information on unrepresented defendants in Magistrates’ Courts is not held centrally.

Data on the number of parties with and without representation in cases with at least one hearing is published in the Family Court Statistics Quarterly, and trend analysis since 2011 is also given. The latest edition is available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-court-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2018

Figures on the number of no (or unknown) representation in the Crown Court, including trends since 2010, are published in the quarterly publication at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2018

Figures on the number of civil defended claims with and without representation are published in the quarterly publication at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/civil-justice-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2018