Legal Aid Scheme
(asked on 3rd September 2014) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of recent changes to legal aid.
This question was answered on 9th September 2014
The Ministry of Justice and the Legal Aid Agency keep the legal aid scheme under constant review, both in terms of expenditure and the impact of reforms.
The Government is currently undertaking a review of the operation of the mandatory telephone gateway. It will undertake a full post-implementation review of the legal aid provisions within the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) within 3 to 5 years of implementation.