Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Chris Green and Lucy Frazer

Tuesday 13th November 2018 Commons Chamber

[Lucy Frazer]

It is important to highlight two things. One is that the Government spend about £100 million on early advice every year. The second is that there is a misconception about what legal aid is and is not available. In fact, legal aid is available for asylum work as well as for non-asylum work, including detention, Special Immigration Appeals Commission, domestic violence and trafficking cases.

[Chris Green (Bolton West) (Con)]

Will my hon. and learned Friend expand on the Department’s current review of legal aid reforms and say what representations have been received from the Labour party?

[Lucy Frazer]

My hon. Friend makes an interesting point. We have received a large number of representations from across the country about what we should be doing in relation to legal aid, and we are looking at them carefully. The Labour party has not put in any representations.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Chris Green and Lucy Frazer

Tuesday 7th February 2017 Commons Chamber

[Chris Green (Bolton West) (Con)]

3. What progress he has made on improving hospitals in special measures.

[Lucy Frazer (South East Cambridgeshire) (Con)]

10. What progress he has made on improving hospitals in special measures.

[The Secretary of State for Health (Mr Jeremy Hunt)]

In the last four years, 31 trusts have been put into special measures—more than one in 10 of all NHS trusts. Of those, 16 have now come out, and I congratulate the staff of Addenbrooke’s and all at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which came out of special measures last month.

Let me also take this opportunity to thank Professor Sir Mike Richards, who has announced his retirement as chief inspector of hospitals. His legacy will be a safer, more caring NHS for the 3 million patients who use it every week. He can feel extremely proud of what he has achieved.