Legal Aid: Post-Implementation Review Debate

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Legal Aid: Post-Implementation Review

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Venezuela
Thursday 7th February 2019

(5 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Baroness Laing of Elderslie Portrait Madam Deputy Speaker (Dame Eleanor Laing)
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The prize for patience and perseverance goes to Louise Haigh.

Louise Haigh Portrait Louise Haigh
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Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker.

In the past six years, there has been a shocking 134% increase in the number of parents facing child custody cases without legal representation. Surely the Secretary of State agrees that no parent should find themselves forced into that situation, so what steps is he introducing today to remedy that?

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