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.
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.