Legal Aid Scheme: Social Security Benefits
Commons · Question 14768 · Tabled 18 Nov 2024 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 26 Nov 2024
Question
Asked by Luke Akehurst
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of legal aid provision in cases relating to disputes in the benefits system.
Answer
Answered by Heidi Alexander, 26 Nov 2024
This Government inherited a legal aid system facing significant challenges. The Ministry of Justice has recently undertaken a lengthy, evidence-based, and wholesale review of the operation of civil legal aid across all eleven categories of civil legal aid...