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Recommendation 20
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Previous committee highlighted MoJ's slow progress reviewing legal aid system sustainability
Recommendation
Our predecessor Committee’s 2024 report on legal aid stated that MoJ had been slow to initiate and complete its large-scale reviews of the sustainability of both the criminal and civil legal aid systems. It raised particular concerns around the civil legal aid sector where legal aid fees had not increased since 1996. The Committee recommended that MoJ needed to improve its ability to respond to emerging sustainability issues in a timely manner and that it should put mechanisms in place to regularly review the profitability of legal aid work.39
Government Response
A response document is linked to this report, dated 1 April 2026. Response attribution to this conclusion has not been verified. Read the response document ↗