HC Deb 22 July 1999 vol 335 c649W
Mr. Cox

To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department what responses he has received from the public on his reforms of the legal aid system. [92014]

Mr. Vaz

Since the publication of the White Paper "Modernising Justice" on 2 December 1998, and the introduction of the Access to Justice Bill in the other place on 3 December 1998, my predecessor and I have received 337 letters about the reforms of the legal aid system from members of the public, directly and through their MPs.