Legal Aid Scheme

(asked on 4th November 2014) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many firms undertook criminal legal aid work in (a) 2010 and (b) 2013.


Answered by
Shailesh Vara Portrait
Shailesh Vara
This question was answered on 11th November 2014

Legal Services Commission Annual Reports show that at 31 March 2010 1697 firms held contracts to undertake criminal legal aid work and that at 31 March 2013 1592 firms held such contracts.

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