§ Mr. DavidTo ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs how many people have been helped by the Community Legal Service in(a) 2000–01, (b) 2001–02 and (c) 2002–03. [163306]
§ Mr. LammyThe Legal Services Commission is unable to answer the question in the format requested as its systems record the number of acts of assistance rather than the number of clients assisted, which is not necessarily reflective of the number of individuals involved. The total acts of assistance dealt with by the CLS were as follows:
Number 2000–01 1,137,000 2001–02 1,005,000 2002–03 1,017,000
§ Mr. GoodmanTo ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs how much funding has been allocated in(a) 2004–05, (b) 2005–06 and (c) total to community legal service partnerships. [163656]
§ Mr. LammyThe Legal Services Commission, which administers the Community Legal Service, does not allocate funding centrally to Community Legal Service (CLS) Partnerships. However resources have been made available at a regional level to support specific partnership related projects.
The future operation of the CLS Partnerships will be informed by the Independent Review of the CLS which is due to report in April 2004. It is therefore not appropriate to comment on the funding position for 2004–05 and 2005–06 until the final findings and recommendations of this evaluation have been fully considered.