Transforming Legal Aid

Part of Business of the House – in the House of Commons at 11:59 am on 5 September 2013.

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Photo of David Burrowes David Burrowes Conservative, Enfield, Southgate 11:59, 5 September 2013

With my interest as a criminal defence duty solicitor, I recognise that this is a tough settlement. However, may I thank the Justice Secretary for doing what he said he would do—listen, engage with professionals on the front line and adapt the proposals to make them work? Given that competitive tendering has been a Labour idea and that attempts at introducing it have been made on a number of occasions, will he confirm, once and for all, that PCT is now in the bin—not the one marked “recycling” but the one marked “refuse”?