It will not take you long to read the "Route Map" for Criminal Legal Aid. I have to say it is not one you would want to have to rely on when setting out on a long journey into the unknown.

The main area of substance is Best Value Tendering about which there is a separate consultation response.

A staggering 5% of respondents (I mean staggering, I cannot work out which 8 of the 173 who replied might have plumped for that option) chose BVT with 23% for essentially the status quo and 66% wanting something else. An equally staggering 6% favour a roll out of the Public Defenders Service.

So 95% reject BVT.

Have a guess what we are going to get?