HC Deb 27 February 1995 vol 255 cc390-1W
Mr. Boateng

To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department what assessment of legal needs in respect of(a) social security, (b) housing, (c) debt, (d) employment, (e) matrimonial law, (f) the Children Act 1989 and (g) immigration in different pats of the country his Department is making; and when he expects to publish these assessments.

Mr. John M. Taylor

For a number of years, the Legal Aid Board has been undertaking pioneering work in establishing methods for predicting legal need in some of these areas of work. Details of this work—which is continuing—are contained in the Legal Aid Board's annual reports. This work will need to be built upon as the ideas outlined by the Lord Chancellor earlier this year are developed further. The results of such work will be published in due course if it seems appropriate to do so.