Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Stephen Hammond and Oliver Heald

Tuesday 6th December 2016 Commons Chamber

[Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon) (Con)]

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?

[Sir Oliver Heald]

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.