HC Deb 25 January 2001 vol 361 cc667-8W
Fiona Mactaggart

To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department if he will set out, with statistical information relating as directly as possible to the Slough constituency, the effects on Slough of his Department's policies and actions since 2 May 1997. [146934]

Jane Kennedy

The Department has approved eight schemes to improve security, facilities for the disabled and general accommodation at Slough magistrates court. The cost of these schemes was approximately £180,000.

The Slough Community Legal Service Partnership (CLSP) is one of 160 CLSPs throughout England and Wales. Throughout the constituency 12 solicitors firms and two Not For Profit organisations have been awarded contracts. The following organisations have received funding amounting to the contract value of £633,950.58:

  • lough CAB/LAW Unit (NFP), SL1 1PL—deals with housing and welfare benefits.
  • Slough Shelter (NFP), SL1 2DJ—deals with housing.
  • Asghar & Co. (Solicitor), SL1 1EE—deals with family and immigration.
  • Barrett & Thomson (Solicitor), SL1 1TQ—deals with family and personal injury.
  • Chambers Solicitors (Solicitors), SL1 1JE—deals with family, welfare benefits, debt, consumer and general contract, immigration and housing.
  • Fort & Co. (Solicitors), SL2 1JF—deals with family.
  • Ghai & Co. (Solicitors), SL1 2EJ—deals with family.
  • Harris & Cartwright (Solicitors), SL1 2DX—deals with family, personal injury, clinical negligence.
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  • Hetherington & Co. (Solicitors), SL1 1TX—deals with family and immigration.
  • Iliffes Booth Bennett (Solicitors), SL1 1DN—deals with family welfare benefits, housing.
  • J. R. Hobbs & Co. (Solicitors), SL1 1DH—deals with family.
  • John Francis & Co. (Solicitors), SL1 1JQ—deals with family.
  • Kidd Rapinet (Solicitors), SL1 1EL—deals with family and personal injury.
  • Martin Murray & Associates (Solicitors), SL1 1EL—deals with family and personal injury.

All the organisations listed here are holders of the CLS Quality Mark at Specialist Level.

Shelter also offers General Help for Welfare Benefits. A further seven organisations in Slough have applied for (or committed to apply for) the CLS Quality Mark at General Help with casework level. These areas are Actions Against the Police, Asylum Seekers/Refugees casework, Community Care, Consumer & General Contract, Debt, Disability—casework, Employment, Family, Housing, Immigration & Nationality, Mental Health, Personal Injury, Older People—casework, Race Equlity—casework, Welfare Benefits, Young People—casework.

A further four organisations in Slough have applied for (or are committed to apply for) the CLS Quality Mark at General Help level in areas including: Community Care, Consumer & General Contract, Debt, Employment, Education, Family, Housing, Immigration & Nationality, Mental Health, Public Law, Welfare Benefits.

One Organisation that offers Mediation services in Slough is listed in the CLS Directory.

Four organisations in Slough have applied for (or are committed to apply for) the CLS Quality Mark at Assisted Information level.

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