Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his planned timeline is for the implementation of the uplift of (a) housing and (b) immigration legal aid.

The Government announced in July this year that legal aid fees for housing and immigration legal aid will be uplifted.

Following the criminal attack on the Legal Aid Agency’s digital systems, the Government’s priority has been to maintain access to justice through the rapid implementation of contingency measures and the restoration of critical systems.

We remain fully committed to introducing the fee uplifts as soon as it is operationally feasible.