Legal Aid
14th June 2011
Dr Francis: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much his Department spent on legal aid in Aberavon constituency in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11; and what estimate he has made of the potential effects of his proposed legal aid reforms on the level of expenditure in that area.
Mr Djanogly: The information requested is not readily available and therefore could be provided only at disproportionate cost. For example payments to criminal barristers cannot easily be broken down by the location of the barrister or client. It is not possible to predict with any degree of accuracy future expenditure in any given geographic area, as this will entirely depend on the nature of the cases that arise in future in that area.
