To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the budget for civil legal aid was in each year since 2004. (231789)

There is no set budget for civil legal aid. Civil legal aid is funded from the overall budget for legal aid which itself forms part of the Department’s delegated expenditure (DEL). Funding for legal aid can be increased or decreased from within DEL according to need.

The following table shows the resource expenditure for the Community Legal Service covering civil, family, immigration and asylum work since 2004-05.