The Government responded during the Fourth Report of Session 2026–27 to the Justice Committee’s Access to Justice: Legal Aid (HC 541) report, published on 17 July 2026. Of the 28 recommendations in the report on eligibility, remuneration, provider capacity, administration and the scope of legal aid, the Government addressed none. The Justice Committee argued that
Ahead of PLP’s upcoming webinar series Influencing for Impact: Making policy design fairer, this blog explores three key principles for creating policy that is not only effective, but genuinely fair and inclusive. Designing good policy isn’t easy, but it is possible. However, when we get it wrong, the consequences can be devastating. Government policy decisions do not affect each of us equally. When policy results in unintended, or worse, deliberate harms for marginalised groups, we need to look to the process of policy design. If we want to