Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Ministry of Justice

Oral Answers to Questions

Stephen Hammond Excerpts
Tuesday 6th December 2016

(8 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Elizabeth Truss Portrait Elizabeth Truss
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I have visited a number of prisons where I have discussed mental health services. I have already answered the hon. Lady’s question.

Stephen Hammond Portrait Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon) (Con)
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T9. What specific actions are my right hon. Friend and the Government taking to ensure that the UK remains a specialist leader in world legal services?

Oliver Heald Portrait Sir Oliver Heald
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We are a modern global centre for legal services and dispute resolution, and English law is the international law of choice. Our legal services sector contributes £26 billion to the UK economy. We have the best legal system in the world, and our modernisation programme will maintain that situation. I will be championing, as will the Secretary of State and the whole team, our legal services sector as a key part of post-Brexit global Britain.