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Legal Aid: Housing

Volume 490: debated on Monday 23 March 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many applications for acts of assistance relating to housing were received by the Legal Services Commission in each Government region in each quarter of (a) 2007-08 and (b) 2008-09; how many such applications were accepted; how much has been spent on them; and if he will make a statement. (264644)

The information will take the Legal Services Commission several days to obtain. I will write to the hon. Member once the information becomes available.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people in Greater London have received assistance from each of the desks established in courts to provide free legal representation at repossession hearings in each month since the scheme's inception. (264645)

A table showing the number of people who have received assistance from Legal Services Commission funded schemes for repossession hearings at courts in Greater London in each month since the scheme's inception at that court has been placed in the House of Commons Library.