Legal Aid Scheme

(asked on 25th June 2014) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were convicted for providing courts with false information on means forms in (a) 2011, (b) 2012 and (c) 2013.


Answered by
Damian Green Portrait
Damian Green
This question was answered on 4th July 2014

The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) rightly has a zero tolerance approach to fraud and works in partnership with the law enforcement agencies to support prosecution where appropriate. According to internal management information there were six convictions for fraud against the Agency in 2011/12, one in 2012/13 and one in 2013/14.

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