Sentencing Reform/Legal Aid

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury – in the House of Commons at 3:32 pm on 21 June 2011.

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Photo of Kenneth Clarke Kenneth Clarke The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice 3:32, 21 June 2011

No. I shall have to write to my hon. Friend with that information, but I am grateful for his welcome. I do not know whether anyone would oppose this, but it is plainly wrong to make legal aid ordinarily available to people who, by definition, are squatting in properties for which they do not have a legal claim.