EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
…. This report examines how civil legal aid provision in England and Wales has evolved since the introduction of these reforms. While criminal legal aid changed too, that is not the focus of this report. Drawing on Ministry of Justice administrative data and Census-linked information on deprivation, the analysis tracks changes in the volume of civil legal aid cases, associated levels of public expenditure, the number and distribution of civil legal aid providers, and the relationship between these changes and local socio-economic conditions. The findings show that civil legal aid provision has contracted substantially since 2012, alongside a decline in the number of providers and increasing geographic unevenness in access … (more)
[Tom Burrows and Magdalena Domínguez, Institute for Fiscal Studies, 5 June 2026]
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