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Adjournment debate on Tuesday, 14 December 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Karen Buck. The answering member was Lord Garnier.

Legal aid

Westminster Hall adjournment debate on legal aid. (Inc ref to the Legal Aid green paper, Cm 7967).

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
520 c189-212WH 
Session
2010-12
Department
Attorney General
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
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Proceeding contributions
Karen Buck | 520 c190WH (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend makes a good point. It is true that legal aid practitioners who take on institu...
David Lammy | 520 c189-90WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend says that those professionals are not well remunerated. Does she agree that they are ...
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Karen Buck | 520 c189WH (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to have secured this important debate so soon after the publication of the legal aid ...
Karen Buck | 520 c190-1WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising that point and I will return in a moment to the issue of...
Chris Leslie | 520 c190WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes her case powerfully. The cuts are atrociously harsh on civil cases. Nottingham ...
Speaker | 520 c199WH (Link to this contribution) Order. I intend to start the winding-up speeches at 10.40 am, and at least six other Members want to...
Jeremy Corbyn | 520 c199WH (Link to this contribution) I also hope that he will recognise that, without law centres and legal aid practices at solicitors, ...
Jeremy Corbyn | 520 c197-9WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to be under your chairpersonship, Mrs Riordan. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Me...
Stephen Lloyd | 520 c197WH (Link to this contribution) That is a fair point, and I look forward to hearing exactly how the Minister will respond. I recogn...
Stephen Lloyd | 520 c197WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for that intervention. That is a fair comment, and I certainly will not disput...
Catherine McKinnell | 520 c196WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making a powerful case, and I agree with some of his points, but does he ackno...
Stephen Lloyd | 520 c196WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. Although the overall legal aid budget has spiralle...
Wayne David | 520 c196WH (Link to this contribution) I hear the hon. Gentleman's sympathetic comments, but what would he say to my constituents in the Ba...
Stephen Lloyd | 520 c195-6WH (Link to this contribution) I understand and appreciate that there is some merit in the Government's decision to simplify legal ...
Karen Buck | 520 c195WH (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely right. I shall now sit down to listen to examples from, possibly, both sides of t...
Mike Weatherley | 520 c194WH (Link to this contribution) Brighton and Hove is expecting a reduction of 80% in legal aid cases—down to only 280 cases per year...
Karen Buck | 520 c193-4WH (Link to this contribution) As I said, the previous Labour Government had already made cuts to the legal aid budget, which were ...
Mark Tami | 520 c195WH (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for giving way and apologise for my late attendance; I had dreadful problems ...
Karen Buck | 520 c195WH (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree. I am extremely concerned. In other areas of public policy, we are seeing reducti...
Julian Lewis | 520 c191-2WH (Link to this contribution) I do believe that the legal aid budget in this country is huge in comparison with those in other Eur...
Karen Buck | 520 c191WH (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely right, and I will deal with family law in a moment.
Margot James | 520 c193WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is making a very powerful case, but given that she has said that civil, family and soc...
Karen Buck | 520 c192-3WH (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising that point; it will be one of the issues that I...
Lord Garnier | 520 c212WH (Link to this contribution) The Government have commissioned an impact assessment, which I believe was published at the same tim...
Lord Garnier | 520 c211-2WH (Link to this contribution) I want to make two points. First—yes, of course the Government are doing so, and that is the point o...
Karen Buck | 520 c212WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the Solicitor-General for giving way. I was in error in my introduction to the debate in not...
Andy Slaughter | 520 c207-10WH (Link to this contribution) I will not give way because there is only a short time left. There would have been cuts under a Labo...
Stephen Timms | 520 c211WH (Link to this contribution) The Solicitor-General is right to praise the work of citizens advice bureaux. However, the National ...
Lord Garnier | 520 c211WH (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the Under-Secretary of State for Justice, my hon. Friend the Member for Huntingdon, w...
Guto Bebb | 520 c211WH (Link to this contribution) I would like to associate myself with many of the comments that have been made, especially those of ...
Lord Garnier | 520 c210-1WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Westminster North (Ms Buck) on introducing this most important su...
Kate Green | 520 c203WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the poor quality of decision making in the social security system als...
Emma Reynolds | 520 c203WH (Link to this contribution) I could not have put it better myself. There are great concerns in the CAB in Wolverhampton. It is f...
Emma Reynolds | 520 c202-3WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Westminster North (Ms Buck) on securing this important ...
Geraint Davies | 520 c203WH (Link to this contribution) As in Wolverhampton, in Swansea the CAB does a marvellous job. Its contract for legal aid for debt a...
Jeremy Corbyn | 520 c199-200WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a powerful point, which is true. Legal aid funding goes through law centres, Ci...
Robert Buckland | 520 c200-2WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Member for Islington North (Jeremy Corbyn) for truncating his remarks. I s...
Stephen Timms | 520 c199WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend and to you, Mrs Riordan. I wanted to pick up my hon. Friend's point...
Jeremy Corbyn | 520 c199WH (Link to this contribution) Actually, Mrs Riordan, I was giving way to my right hon. Friend the Member for East Ham (Stephen Tim...
Andy Slaughter | 520 c207WH (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship this morning, Mrs Riordan, and to be opposit...
David Lammy | 520 c205-6WH (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Westminster North (Ms Buck) for initiating this incredibly imp...
Margot James | 520 c206WH (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
David Lammy | 520 c206WH (Link to this contribution) I will not give way, as there is so little time. It cannot be right that people will get a practiti...
Lilian Greenwood | 520 c204WH (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend as shocked as I was to hear from Nottingham law centre that 42% of the clients' pr...
Emma Reynolds | 520 c203-4WH (Link to this contribution) I could not agree more. Members of all parties know that such examples come up time and again in the...
Yvonne Fovargue | 520 c205WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that although one alternative, the expansion of telephone advice, is welco...
Emma Reynolds | 520 c204-5WH (Link to this contribution) I could not agree more with my hon. Friend. That goes to the heart of the argument. These cuts will ...
Kate Green | 520 c191WH (Link to this contribution) In the context of my hon. Friend's remarks about the impact of the proposals, does she agree that ye...
Kate Green | 520 c197WH (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman not also accept that people face clusters of problems? Even if people can st...
Emma Reynolds | 520 c205WH (Link to this contribution) I could not agree more. There is no substitute for face-to-face counselling and advice. As my hon. F...
Subjects
Finance Legal aid scheme Reform
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