Legal Aid Scheme
(asked on 6th July 2017) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps the Government is taking to increase the availability of legal aid in England and Wales.
This question was answered on 13th July 2017
The reforms to the scope of civil legal aid were designed to refocus funding on those who need it most and on the most serious cases in which legal advice and representation are justified.
Previous Ministers have made a commitment to publishing both a post-legislative memorandum for the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 as a whole and a post-implementation review of recent legal aid reform.