Mary Creagh – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mary Creagh on 2016-03-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much in legal aid was granted to prison inmates in England and Wales in each of the last five years.

Mr Shailesh Vara

The information requested is not held centrally. The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) does not identify or record in its databases whether civil legal aid applicants are prisoners as this does not affect eligibility for legal aid funding.

Information on how much in legal aid was granted to prison inmates within the prison law category of criminal legal aid in each of the last five years is published by the Ministry of Justice as part of the Legal aid statistics at the following link on the gov.uk website.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/legal-aid-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2015

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