Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Alex Davies-Jones and Euan Stainbank

Tuesday 16th December 2025 Commons Chamber

[Euan Stainbank (Falkirk) (Lab)]

The Hillsborough law will deliver a generational strengthening of legal aid, but does the Minister share my constituents’ concern about the fact that the Scottish Government have yet to confirm that similar non-means-tested legal aid will be available to bereaved families in Scotland?

[Alex Davies-Jones]

I can confirm that we have had positive conversations with the Scottish Government about extending the provision to Scotland. This is a matter for them, but we are engaging in positive conversations, and they have shown willing in wanting to adopt the same model that we will be adopting to provide non-means-tested legal aid for all bereaved families when there has been state involvement in the death of their loved ones.