Legal Aid Scheme

(asked on 1st June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many applications for legal aid have been made to the Legal Aid Agency in each month in 2020; and how many of those applications have been successful.


Answered by
Alex Chalk Portrait
Alex Chalk
Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice
This question was answered on 9th June 2020

Information was recently released to answer PQs 42892 & 42893 for the calendar year 2019.

At the time of writing the Legal Aid Agency’s most recent quarterly National Statistics publication covers up to and including the third quarter of the financial year 2019/2020. Data for January – March 2020 inclusive is scheduled to be released on 25 June 2020 at which time monthly breakdowns of the information sought will be available upon request.

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/legal-aid-statistics

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