Whether the Scottish Legal Aid Board has undertaken a comparative exercise on the value of work now being performed under the Criminal Lega…

Answered Asked by Michael Matheson SNP Lodged 3 Apr 2002

The question

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Scottish Legal Aid Board has undertaken a comparative exercise on the value of work now being performed under the Criminal Legal Aid (Fixed Payments) (Scotland) Regulations 1999, applying Schedule 1 of the Criminal Legal Aid (Scotland) (Fees) Regulations 1989 and, if so, what the results were.

The answer

Answered by Jim Wallace on 17 Apr 2002 · 14 days after it was lodged, on time

The Executive will commission an independent research project into the impact of fixed payments in the course of this year.

In the Official Report

No contribution in the Official Report cites S1W-24729 by reference.