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date	26/10/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of fixed recoverable costs on the ability of housing legal aid providers to carry out legal aid work.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	72436
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2022 answer text <p>The extension of Fixed Recoverable Costs (FRC) will control legal costs and make them more certain. We have exceptionally decided to delay the extension of FRC to legally aided housing possession cases for two years. Lord Bellamy KC met the Housing Law Practitioners Association (HLPA) to discuss the impact of FRC on 23 September 2022 and there have been subsequent discussions between HLPA and MoJ officials. The government will continue to keep FRC and its impact on legal aid under review.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 31/10/2022 10:36:46 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

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registered interest
date	27/06/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to help people in South Wales that are unable to travel to a housing legal aid provider.
tabling member constituency	Ogmore
tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
uin	270393
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2019 answer text <p>The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) keeps availability of legal aid providers under constant review, and takes urgent action whenever it has concerns.</p><p> </p><p>The LAA has recently tendered for new face-to-face housing contracts across the 134 housing and debt procurement areas across England and Wales. Contracts commenced on 1 September 2018. As of 31 May 2019, there is at least one provider offering housing and debt services in all but 4 procurement areas. Legal advice is still available in these areas through the Civil Legal Advice telephone service, and the LAA is considering how to secure provision in these areas and will set out next steps shortly.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to the Civil Legal Advice telephone service offering legal services in a range of issues to those who need it, we are investing £5m in innovative new technologies to help people access legal support wherever they are in England and Wales.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 02/08/2019 14:54:44 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore