Part of Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill – in the House of Lords at 9:15 pm on 23 April 2012.
Is the Minister therefore confident that there is no waste in the criminal legal aid budget and that there are no rackets there? Is he confident that this is an area that did not need the Government's attention and that since the Treasury obliged his department to find savings of 23 per cent it really needed to focus its effort on the civil legal aid budget?