Legal Aid Scheme: Education

(asked on 2nd July 2019) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost was to the public purse on legal aid for education law in each year since 2010.


Answered by
Paul Maynard Portrait
Paul Maynard
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 9th July 2019

This information is published at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/legal-aid-statistics and is updated on a quarterly basis. The relevant information is summarised in the table shown below:

Financial Year

Total (£)

2010-11

2,632,000

2011-12

2,639,000

2012-13

2,487,000

2013-14

1,554,000

2014-15

1,338,000

2015-16

1,236,000

2016-17

1,607,000

2017-18

1,868,000

2018-19

1,740,000

Costs are inclusive of VAT, profit costs, counsel fees and any disbursements incurred. Please note that costs recovered from the opponent in education law matters, and hence which were not charged to the legal aid fund, have not been included in the totals above.

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