Legal Aid Scheme
(asked on 4th June 2014) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much public interest lawyers have received in legal aid for cases against the Home Office in each of the last 10 years.
The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) cannot separately identify legal aid cases against the Department for Work and Pensions, the Ministry of Defence and the Home Office. Opponents are not systematically recorded against Legal Aid cases.
The net payments to Public Interest Lawyers over the past ten tears were:
Financial Year | Net Payments |
FY2003-2004 | £139,620.72 |
FY2004-2005 | £158,282.52 |
FY2005-2006 | £251,844.27 |
FY2006-2007 | £299,667.99 |
FY2007-2008 | £577,263.60 |
FY2008-2009 | £628,527.75 |
FY2009-2010 | £267,433.88 |
FY2010-2011 | £439,268.02 |
FY2011-2012 | £331,238.85 |
FY2012-2013 | £50,633.27 |
These payments cover all work undertaken by the firm under legal aid. The payments made will be offset by recoupment on successful cases where the opponent has paid the costs.