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date	09/05/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Family Courts: Lone Parents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to ensure that single mothers receive adequate support and advice in the family courts division.
tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
uin	252555
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>Access to justice is a fundamental right. We spent £1.6bn last year on legal aid for the most vulnerable – of which £545m was in family law.</p><p>Legal aid is also part of a bigger picture and so we are now making changes to enhance the breadth of legal support available for everyone in society.</p><p>The Legal Support Action Plan, published on 7 February, announced that we would be changing the legal aid eligibility criteria to provide non-means tested legal aid for parents, or those with parental responsibility, who wish to oppose applications for placement orders or adoption orders in public family law. In addition, we announced that we will doubling the department’s funding to the Litigants in Person Support Strategy to £3m for the next two years.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 15/05/2019 17:04:39 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard previous answer version 118006 answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

1125035

registered interest
date	07/05/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when the Parliamentary Under Secretary for Courts and Justice plans to respond to the letter of 14 March 2019 from the hon. Member for Lincoln on economic domestic abuse.
tabling member constituency	Lincoln
tabling member printed	Karen Lee
uin	251385
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>I apologise to the honourable Member for Lincoln for the delay in responding to her letter dated 14 March. I understand that <del class="ministerial">my</del><ins class="ministerial">a</ins> response was sent to her office <ins class="ministerial">by my predeccesor, Minister Frazer,</ins> on 8 May.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 15/05/2019 16:16:32 question first ministerially corrected 16/05/2019 13:11:43 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard previous answer version 118228 answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4664 label Biography information for Karen Lee