Mrs. Dun woodyTo ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department if he will list the number of legal aid applications and the total sums involved received from members of the public in Cheshire for each of the last five years. [36391]
§ Mr. StreeterThe Legal Aid Board has an area officer in Chester which covers the county of Cheshire along with nine other counties or regions. The data gathered by the board do not separately identify applications received by individual counties.
The total number of applications for civil legal aid received by the Chester area office over the last five years were as follows:
- 1991–92: 26,391
- 1992–93: 30,542
- 1993–94: 24,969
- 1994–95: 25,517
- 1995–96: 24,593
For civil legal aid certificates issued by the board's Chester area office, the net cost of cases which closed during the last four years were as follows:
- 1992–93: £14.056 million
- 1993–94: £17.657 million
- 1994–95: £18.320 million
- 1995–96: £18.622 million
The figures for 1991–92 are not available.