§ Mr. Oakesasked the Attorney-General (1) if he will now take steps to revise the maximum income limit of £7 10s. for advice under the statutory legal advice scheme;
(2) if he will now take steps to revise the amount of remuneration of £3 maximum per case paid to solicitors under the statutory legal advice scheme.
§ The Attorney-GeneralIn its Seventeenth Report the Legal Aid Advisory Committee made proposals for increasing the income limits of the legal advice scheme and the remuneration of solicitors advising under it at an estimated annual cost of £360,000. In present economic circumstances effect cannot yet be given to these recommendations.