Justice: Legal Aid (21st June 2011)
Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many acts of assistance were funded by the Legal Services Commission in respect of solicitors in North East Hertfordshireconstituency in (a) 2009 and (b) 2010; and if he will make a statement.
Jonathan Djanogly (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (HM Courts Service and Legal Aid), Justice; Huntingdon, Conservative)
The Legal Services Commission (LSC) is responsible for administering the legal aid scheme in England and Wales. One individual may receive a number of separate acts of assistance, and one act of assistance can help more than one person.
The following table shows the numbers of acts of assistance delivered by legal aid providers with postcodes falling within North East Hertfordshire. All acts of assistance are based on the solicitor's location, which may not reflect where the client is based. The data are only available by financial and not calendar year.
North East Hertfordshire constituency Crime lower claims Legal help new matter starts Civil rep. certificates issues Crime higher cases 2008-09 733 216 154 90 2009-10 809 273 136 65