Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will conduct an urgent review of the Legal Aid Agency's decision to refuse a request to fund a civil case into the Hyde Park bombing.

The Government’s sympathies are with the victims and friends and families of those who lost their lives and were injured in this terrible attack.

Decisions on funding individual cases are taken independently by the Legal Aid Agency. The decision not to provide legal aid funding for this claim for damages was made as it does not meet the criteria set by Parliament. Ministers are prevented by law from intervening in the individual decisions of the Legal Aid Agency.