Future of Legal Aid

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Henry. I start by referring to my declarat...

My hon. Friend is making an excellent point. Does he agree that our international reputation is a...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. He speaks with great experience from his time in practice in ...

The hon. Gentleman is making an excellent speech and an excellent point. May I add that we need t...

With his experience, the hon. Gentleman makes an entirely valid point. The Justice Committee has ...

Does my hon. Friend agree that sometimes the best advice that a lawyer can give at an early stage...

Again, my hon. Friend is absolutely right. What he says applies not only to family work, but to a...

The hon. Gentleman and I both serve on the all-party parliamentary group on miscarriages of justi...

I take the hon. Gentleman’s point, and I agree that there was nothing malign in the intent. The c...

My hon. Friend has been so generous. Does he agree that one of the pillars of our world-renowned ...

That is right. We could probably have a debate on judicial recruitment and retention.

Put in for it.

Perhaps we should, and perhaps I will encourage my hon. Friend to join me in doing so.

Liti...

It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Henry, particularly given your perso...

I agree entirely with the hon. Lady’s argument, and I am glad that she referred to Justice Week. ...

Absolutely. I would love every Member of this House to watch that video and to be made aware of t...

Does the hon. Lady agree that there is a lesson for us in this place, too? There is no point in o...

That is absolutely right. I will come on to a variant of that theme—the extent to which the law i...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Henry. I congratulate my hon. Friend the M...

The hon. Lady makes a very good point about the impact on firms of solicitors. I wonder whether s...

The hon. Gentleman makes a very powerful point, which surely must go towards the consideration of...

It is an honour to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Bailey. I thank the hon. Member for Hammersm...

The hon. Lady might like to know that the figures provided to the Justice Committee in relation t...

The hon. Gentleman has just anticipated one of my next sentences. We have an ageing specialist pr...

It is a pleasure to speak in this debate, Mr Bailey. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Hammer...

One area in which LASPO has perversely driven up costs is immigration. LASPO exempted certain imm...

My hon. Friend’s constituency is not a million miles from mine and I completely relate to the poi...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Bailey. I congratulate my hon. Friend the M...

It is a pleasure to speak in this debate, and I congratulate the hon. Member for Hammersmith (And...

It is good to see you in the Chair, Mr Bailey.

I, too, congratulate the hon. Member for Ham...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Bailey.

I congratulate my hon. Friend...

I understand the Minister has an enormous number of points to respond to, but if she could give M...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Bailey. I congratulate the hon. Member for ...

I recognise and welcome the positive changes that have happened since the Minister has been in th...

My hon. Friend is very knowledgeable and experienced in many matters, including this one. He does...

I acknowledge that point, but that was in the context of my arguing that these things are only as...

It was actually the hon. Member for Stockton North (Alex Cunningham) who said that legal aid for ...

What does the Minister say to the Justice Committee’s suggestion that, although housing may be wi...

The point that it is useful to nip problems in the bud and address them at the outset, so that th...

I sense that the Minister is drawing her remarks to a close, but I wonder whether she will addres...

I am happy to answer those points. We did not need to commit to looking at inquests, because LASP...

On inquests, I simply wanted to know, if the review is separate, when it is likely to report. My ...

Ah, yes. Of course it is important to consider all methods of provision. We have the telephone ga...

It is good to see you in the Chair, Mr Bailey, for the second part of the debate. I hope you have...