Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 47946

Legal Aid Scheme

Tabled: 24 April 2025

Answered: 2 May 2025

Named Day

Question

Henry Tufnell

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much and what proportion of Legal Aid exceptional case funding was spent on (a) the means test assessment process and (b) operational costs in the last financial year.

Answer

Sarah Sackman

The information requested is not held centrally. The unit cost of processing an application is not specifically tracked or recorded by the Legal Aid Agency (LAA), nor is the operating expenditure relating to exceptional case funding (ECF) recorded separat...

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