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Written Question
Legal Aid Scheme
Monday 2nd February 2015

Asked by: Mike Freer (Conservative - Finchley and Golders Green)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies on access to legal aid in family courts of the evidence given on 1 December 2011 to the Justice Committee by the President of the Family Division.

Answered by Mike Penning

Ministers and officials regularly meet with members of the senior judiciary to discuss policy and operational matters.

The Government will respond to the report of the Justice Committee’s inquiry into the impact of changes to civil legal aid under the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 once it is published.