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  • LEGAL AID CHANGES THREATEN MANY FAMILIES WITH HOMELESSNESS SAYS MARK DRAKEFORD AM

    • November 26, 2011
    • Posted by: Mark Drakeford AM
    • Category: Press Release
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    26th November 2011 The UK Government’s proposed changes to the Legal Aid system will lead to more people in Wales becoming homeless Cardiff West AM Mark Drakeford said in Plenary today (Tuesday, 22 November). Mr Drakeford said he feared many people would lose out on access to the debt and welfare benefit advice under changes

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  • FMQs 22nd November 2011 – Legal Aid

    • November 22, 2011
    • Posted by: Mark Drakeford AM
    • Category: News
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    Mark Drakeford: First Minister, at the same time as the welfare reform proposals are taking £2 billion out of the pockets of the poorest families in Wales, the same Government, through its legal aid proposals, is cutting the help that those families might have had to challenge those decisions or to deal with the debt

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