Register Of All-Party Groups [as at 30 March 2015] Legal Aid

TITLE

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Legal Aid

 

PURPOSE

To promote parliamentary and public understanding of the importance of the role of publicly funded legal services as a pillar of the welfare state and in reducing the inequalities in society.

 

OFFICERS

 

Title

Name

Party

Chair

Vice-Chair

Treasurer

Secretary

Jeremy Corbyn

Lord Carlile of Berriew

Lord Bach

Sir Peter Bottomley

Lab

LD
Lab

Con

 

TWENTY QUALIFYING MEMBERS

 

Government Party

Main Opposition Party

Other

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Sir Peter Bottomley – Con

Dr Julian Huppert – LD

Gareth Johnson – Con

Jessica Lee – Con

Geoffrey Cox – Con

David Burrowes – Con

Lord Carlile of Berriew – LD
John Hemming – LD

Angie Bray – Con

Sir David Amess – Con

Karen Buck

Kate Green

Yvonne Fovargue

Lord Bach

Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws

Geraint Davies

Andy Slaughter

Rosie Cooper

Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead

Julie Hilling

 

 

 

CONTACT DETAILS FOR CORRESPONDENCE AND GENERAL ENQUIRIES ABOUT THE GROUP

Mr Jeremy Corbyn MP, House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 3545

Group’s website.

BENEFITS RECEIVED BY GROUP FROM SOURCES OUTSIDE PARLIAMENT

Legal Aid Practitioners Group acts as the group’s secretariat, assisted by Young Legal Aid Lawyers, and receives funding from The Legal Education Foundation for this purpose. That funding will be paid in instalments over two years and the total sum paid will not exceed £20,000 (registered October 2014).

DATE OF GROUP’S LAST REGISTERED ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

16 October 2014

CATEGORY OF GROUP

All-Party Parliamentary Subject Group.

 

 

Prepared 1st April 2015