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<id>30235</id>
<session>2005-06</session>
<number>1779</number>
<title>Withdrawal Of Legal Services Commission Specialist Support Services</title>
<proposer id="10854">Jonathan Djanogly</proposer>
<date>2006-03-08</date>
<text>That this House believes that the Legal Services Commission's decision to end its specialist support services from July is an incomprehensible error; further believes it will impact heavily on the poorer and most vulnerable members of the community and create an even larger shortfall in provision than already exists; deplores the axing of the telephone specialist support service which provides back-up support for solicitors from expert lawyers, involving free telephone advice, help with casework and external supervision and training for legal advisers; notes the severe effect it will have on high street solicitor firms on the frontline dealing with complex legal issues in the areas of housing, employment, immigration, human rights, mental health, welfare benefits, community care and debt that are covered by the service; and further believes that this proposal will not save money for the Government and will only lead to the same sums being spent in a less efficient way on an alternative and less effective scheme.</text>
<topics>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10854">Jonathan Djanogly</mp>
		<date>2006-03-08</date>
		<type>Proposed</type>
		<constituency>Huntingdon</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10267">Oliver Heald</mp>
		<date>2006-03-08</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>North East Hertfordshire</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10243">Dominic Grieve</mp>
		<date>2006-03-08</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Beaconsfield</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10368">Elfyn Llwyd</mp>
		<date>2006-03-09</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Meirionnydd Nant Conwy</constituency>
		<party>Plaid Cymru</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10614">Keith Vaz</mp>
		<date>2006-03-09</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Leicester East</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11759">Stewart Jackson</mp>
		<date>2006-03-09</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Peterborough</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11651">Lee Scott</mp>
		<date>2006-03-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ilford North</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10057">Peter Bottomley</mp>
		<date>2006-03-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Worthing West</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10815">Derek Conway</mp>
		<date>2006-03-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Old Bexley &amp; Sidcup</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10096">Martin Caton</mp>
		<date>2006-03-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Gower</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10289">John Horam</mp>
		<date>2006-03-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Orpington</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11199">Andrew Rosindell</mp>
		<date>2006-03-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Romford</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11707">John Leech</mp>
		<date>2006-03-13</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Manchester, Withington</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11308">Angela Watkinson</mp>
		<date>2006-03-13</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Upminster</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10218">George Galloway</mp>
		<date>2006-03-13</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bethnal Green &amp; Bow</constituency>
		<party>Respect</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11245">Bob Spink</mp>
		<date>2006-03-13</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Castle Point</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10527">Adrian Sanders</mp>
		<date>2006-03-13</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Torbay</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11905">Edward Vaizey</mp>
		<date>2006-03-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wantage</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11675">Peter Soulsby</mp>
		<date>2006-03-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Leicester South</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11927">Stephen Hammond</mp>
		<date>2006-03-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wimbledon</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11599">Adam Holloway</mp>
		<date>2006-03-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Gravesham</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10624">Nigel Waterson</mp>
		<date>2006-03-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Eastbourne</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10616">Rudi Vis</mp>
		<date>2006-03-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Finchley &amp; Golders Green</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10258">Mike Hancock</mp>
		<date>2006-03-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Portsmouth South</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10228">Cheryl Gillan</mp>
		<date>2006-03-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Chesham &amp; Amersham</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10193">Michael Fabricant</mp>
		<date>2006-03-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Lichfield</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10133">Jeremy Corbyn</mp>
		<date>2006-03-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Islington North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10371">Tim Loughton</mp>
		<date>2006-03-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>East Worthing &amp; Shoreham</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10358">Julian Lewis</mp>
		<date>2006-03-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>New Forest East</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10295">Lindsay Hoyle</mp>
		<date>2006-03-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Chorley</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11458">Stephen Williams</mp>
		<date>2006-03-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bristol West</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11573">David Burrowes</mp>
		<date>2006-03-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Enfield, Southgate</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10221">Edward Garnier</mp>
		<date>2006-03-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Harborough</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11589">Mark Durkan</mp>
		<date>2006-03-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Foyle</constituency>
		<party>Social Democratic and Labour Party</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11095">Rob Marris</mp>
		<date>2006-03-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wolverhampton South West</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10348">Eleanor Laing</mp>
		<date>2006-03-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Epping Forest</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11174">John Pugh</mp>
		<date>2006-03-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Southport</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10447">Malcolm Moss</mp>
		<date>2006-03-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North East Cambridgeshire</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10657">Derek Wyatt</mp>
		<date>2006-03-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Sittingbourne &amp; Sheppey</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11640">James Brokenshire</mp>
		<date>2006-03-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hornchurch</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11506">David Jones</mp>
		<date>2006-03-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Clwyd West</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10415">Gordon Marsden</mp>
		<date>2006-03-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Blackpool South</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10084">Vincent Cable</mp>
		<date>2006-03-20</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Twickenham</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10578">Andrew Stunell</mp>
		<date>2006-03-20</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hazel Grove</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10166">Janet Dean</mp>
		<date>2006-03-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Burton</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11603">Anne Milton</mp>
		<date>2006-03-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Guildford</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11216">Andrew Selous</mp>
		<date>2006-03-22</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>South West Bedfordshire</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10542">Keith Simpson</mp>
		<date>2006-03-23</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Mid Norfolk</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10214">Christopher Fraser</mp>
		<date>2006-03-28</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>South West Norfolk</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11461">Charles Walker</mp>
		<date>2006-03-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Broxbourne</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11970">David Mundell</mp>
		<date>2006-03-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale &amp; Tweeddale</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10660">John Randall</mp>
		<date>2006-04-18</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Uxbridge</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10361">David Lidington</mp>
		<date>2006-04-18</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Aylesbury</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10770">Alistair Burt</mp>
		<date>2006-04-18</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North East Bedfordshire</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11924">John Penrose</mp>
		<date>2006-04-18</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Weston-Super-Mare</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11450">Madeleine Moon</mp>
		<date>2006-04-19</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bridgend</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11109">Patrick Mercer</mp>
		<date>2006-04-24</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Newark</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11132">Andrew Murrison</mp>
		<date>2006-05-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Westbury</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11148">Albert Owen</mp>
		<date>2006-05-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ynys M</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11265">Hugo Swire</mp>
		<date>2006-05-25</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>East Devon</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10615">Peter Viggers</mp>
		<date>2006-06-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Gosport</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10955">Charles Hendry</mp>
		<date>2006-06-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wealden</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11318">Bill Wiggin</mp>
		<date>2006-07-13</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Leominster</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10620">Robert Walter</mp>
		<date>2006-07-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North Dorset</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10383">John McDonnell</mp>
		<date>2006-11-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hayes &amp; Harlington</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
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