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In “Strengthening Scotland’s Future”, the UK Government’s paper on the bill, there is a series of points—on pages 22 to 26, if I remember rightly—on how the process will be managed.
That was going to be my next question. Is there a de minimis figure? How different does the Scottish rate have to be for an extra £3.5 million of costs to be incurred?
Rather than produce something and ask for responses, the group asked people to express their views and to highlight suggestions as to how it could proceed.
We also know of a very old person, who is quite fragile, who phoned up NHS 24 and was told to go to hospital. As she lives 26 miles away, she asked whether she would go in an ambulance.
The Committee wanted to find out what is working and not working within the current civil legal assistance system and what changes could be made in the short and longer term to address access issues.The Committee expressed immense disappointment in the failure by the Scottish Government to introduce legislation this session to reform civil legal assistance....
In that report, amongst other things, the Committee expressed its disappointment in the absence of primary legislation this session to reform civil legal assistance.
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