Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has saved as a result of the implementation of each of the legal aid provisions in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.

It is not possible at this point to establish the precise savings resulting from the legal aid reforms contained in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012. There are still ongoing cases that started prior to the reforms. As a result, the reforms have not yet reached steady state and the full savings have not yet been fully realised.

However, the NAO recently concluded in their report: Implementing reforms to civil legal aid, that the MoJ is on track to deliver £300m of savings.