Legal Services Commission: Fees and Charges

Anne Milton
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much money the Legal Services Commission has received by way of (a) recovered costs and (b) interest on statutory charges in each year since 1997.

Maria Eagle
The information requested is shown in the following table. Data for the years 1997-98 to 1999-2000 relate to the former Legal Aid Board, which was replaced by the Legal Services Commission in 2000. The reduction in recovered costs was due to the removal of money cases such as personal injury from scope in 2000 following the introduction of conditional fee arrangements in 1995.

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|Financial year               |1997-98|1998-99|1999-2000|2000-01|2001-02|2002-03|2003-04|2004-05|2005-06|2006-07|
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|Recovered costs              |37,850 |36,550 |27,190   |23,440 |23,220 |13,450 |18,440 |5,590  |5,950  |4,570  |
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|Interest on Statutory charges|3,290  |1,040  |5,180    |6,130  |8,100  |8,230  |8,130  |7,030  |9,180  |9,450  |
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