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<p>Expenditure on police station advice is published as part of Legal Aid Agency’s
Quarterly Statistics. This data can be viewed by accessing Column ‘L’ of the table
2.2 at this link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/legal-aid-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2019"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/legal-aid-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2019</a></p><p>
</p><p>The number of claims received by the Legal Aid agency for police station attendances
is also published in the Legal Aid Agency’s Quarterly Statistics at table 2.1, please
note that the number of claims for ‘attendances’ can be found at Column C. These are
a specific subset of total claims for all types of police station advice which can
be found at Column L of the same table</p><p> </p><p>This information is not held
by the Ministry of Justice because the Legal Aid Agency does not record this type
of information about Legal Aid Providers.</p><p> </p><p>Please note for the figures
provided that some firms may have more than 1 office. There are currently 1,147 firms
holding a criminal legal aid contract, and this equates to 1,697 offices. This data
is correct at 3rd June 2020.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>2021/21
(at June 20)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>New Firms</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>165</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>87</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>115</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>New
Offices</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>187</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>87</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>131</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>Please note ‘New firms’ may be the result of mergers and acquisitions outside
of the tender process. Firms may have withdrawn and then re-entered into new contract
later. This data has been provided on yearly basis as the data is too granular to
provide month on month changes - the year end position has been shown for active firms/offices.
There were formal tenders in 2010 and 2017, hence the larger numbers. In 2015/16 after
the competitive tender was set aside new firms that had been successful in their bid
for an own client contract were allowed to deliver services. The data is correct at
3rd June 2020.</p><p> </p><p>As at 1 June 2020 we have 4455 duty solicitors listed
on our database allocated slots for the current rota period. The LAA publishes the
duty solicitor rotas here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/duty-solicitors-rotas-information-and-guidance#duty-solicitor-rotas-1st-april-2020-to-september-30-2020---first-publication"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/duty-solicitors-rotas-information-and-guidance#duty-solicitor-rotas-1st-april-2020-to-september-30-2020---first-publication</a></p><p>
</p><p>There are 2063 reps which includes probationary and accredited on the current
list and it is published here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/standard-crime-contract-2017"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/standard-crime-contract-2017</a></p><p>
</p><p>We are aware that the Covid19 restrictions have had an impact on the volume
of work conducted by Legal Aid providers. The LAA have been in contact with providers
to assess the impact on their businesses. Many have reported taking advantage of the
schemes made available by HMT and we continue to monitor the situation closely.</p>
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