Accredited official statistics announcement

Legal aid statistics quarterly: July to September 2025

Activity in the legal aid system for England and Wales, including criminal and civil legal aid, family mediation, providers of legal aid, client characteristics and Central Funds payments.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Published: 13 January 2025
• Last updated: 20 November 2025

• Proposed release: 18 December 2025 9:30am
• Cancellation date: 20 November 2025 2:18pm

Statistics release cancelled

Following discussions with the Chief Statistician, we will not be publishing Legal Aid statistics in December. This is due to insufficient data availability following the cyber security incident which has led to necessary changes in systems used for processing legal aid claims data.