Oral Question·Home Office
“What steps her Department is taking to improve intelligence sharing following the terrorist incident in Forbury Gardens in Reading in 2020.”
Tabled: 19 November 2024Answered: 25 November 2024
Asked by
Paula Barker
Labour — Liverpool Wavertree
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for the Home Department
Answer from Hansard
Sarah Sackman
Early legal advice is absolutely essential to access to justice, and that is why one of the first actions we took when I became the Minister responsible for legal aid was to give legal aid lawyers delivering immigration and housing advice the first pay lift they had received since 1996—an injection of £20 million. That was precisely because of the issues the hon. Gentleman raises.