Legal Aid Scheme
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department plans to (a) review and (b) reform civil legal aid.
Answered by Heidi Alexander
We are committed to ensuring the long-term sustainability of the civil legal aid sector and are keen to work closely with practitioners and their representative bodies to look at how best we can address this.
We want to understand the different ways in which the justice system can be improved and will be carefully considering our options on the way forward. This includes considering the evidence on civil legal aid gathered over the past year.
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