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These documents supplement the quarterly legal aid statistics bulletin by providing a comprehensive guide to the statistics, data and how to use them.

• From: Ministry of Justice and Legal Aid Agency
• Published: 26 March 2015
• Last updated: 19 December 2024 — See all updates

Applies to England and Wales

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Legal aid statistics data visualisation tools

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User guide to legal aid statistics in England and Wales

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Index of data in Legal aid statistics

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Legal aid statistics Quality Statement

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These documents supplement the quarterly legal aid statistics bulletin by providing a comprehensive guide to the statistics, data and how to use them.

They provide a brief background overview of the legal aid system including recent reforms, and it also covers:

• explanations of terminology
• data sources and quality
• revisions policy
• users and uses of the statistics
• other explanatory notes
• lists available data
• guidance for working with data
• quality statement

Published 26 March 2015
Last updated 19 December 2024 + show all updates

1. 19 December 2024

   Updated for the July to September 2024 edition of the legal aid statistics

2. 26 September 2024

   Updated for the April to June 2024 edition of the legal aid statistics

3. 27 June 2024

   Updated for the January to March 2024 edition of the legal aid statistics

4. 28 March 2024

   Updated for the October to December 2023 edition of the legal aid statistics

5. 21 December 2023

   Updated for the July to September 2023 edition of the legal aid statistics

6. 28 September 2023

   Updated for the April to June 2023 edition of the legal aid statistics

7. 29 June 2023

   Updated for the January to March 2023 edition of the legal aid statistics

8. 30 March 2023

   Updated for the October to December 2022 edition of the legal aid statistics

9. 15 December 2022

   Updated for the July to September 2022 edition of the legal aid statistics

10. 29 September 2022

    Updated for the April to June 2022 edition of the legal aid statistics

11. 30 June 2022

    Updated for the January to March 2022 edition of the legal aid statistics

12. 31 March 2022

    Updated for the October to December 2021 edition of the legal aid statistics

13. 16 December 2021

    Updated for the July to September 2021 edition of the legal aid statistics

14. 30 September 2021

    Updated for the April to June 2021 edition of the legal aid statistics

15. 29 September 2021

    Updated for the April to June 2021 edition of the legal aid statistics

16. 24 June 2021

    Updated for the January to March 2021 edition of the legal aid statistics

17. 25 March 2021

    Updated for the October to December 2020 edition of the legal aid statistics

18. 17 December 2020

    User guide and Index updated for the July to September 2020 edition of the legal aid statistics also HTML version of Quality statement and User Guide added

19. 24 September 2020

    User guide and Index updated for the April to June 2020 edition of the legal aid statistics

20. 25 June 2020

    User guide and Index updated for the January to March 2020 edition of the legal aid statistics

21. 26 March 2020

    User guide and Index updated for the October to December 2019 edition of the legal aid statistics Separate Quality statement (previously included in the user guide) published

22. 19 December 2019

    User guide and Index updated for the July to September 2019 edition of the legal aid statistics

23. 26 September 2019

    User guide and Index updated for the April to June 2019 edition of the legal aid statistics

24. 30 July 2019

    Updated revisions policy hyperlink

25. 27 June 2019

    User guide updated for the January to March 2019 edition of the legal aid statistics and Index of data is added to this page.

26. 5 April 2019

    User guide updated for the October to December 2018 edition of the legal aid statistics

27. 28 March 2019

    User guide updated

28. 13 December 2018

    User guide updated for the July to September 2018 edition of the legal aid statistics

29. 27 September 2018

    Guide updated.

30. 28 June 2018

    User guide updated for the January to March 2018 edition of the legal aid statistics

31. 29 March 2018

    Guide updated.

32. 14 December 2017

    User guide updated

33. 28 September 2017

    Guide updated.

34. 29 June 2017

    User guide updated.

35. 30 March 2017

    Guide updated.

36. 15 December 2016

    Updated user guide added to page.

37. 29 September 2016

    Guide updated.

38. 30 June 2016

    New version of the user guide published.

39. 31 March 2016

    Updated version of ‘A guide to legal aid statistics in England and Wales’ added to page.

40. 17 December 2015

    Updated guide published.

41. 23 September 2015

    Updated 'Legal Aid Statistics guide' added to page.

42. 25 June 2015

    Updated guidance published

43. 26 March 2015

    First published.