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As the National Audit Office made clear last year, the result of failing to provide effective early legal advice in this labyrinthine system is money, time and resources wasted on all the following: court adjournments, supporting litigants in person, accommodating people in hotels, fresh asylum claims, and tribunal appeals. We cannot afford this waste at a time when the asylum appeals backlog has increased. Better we get it right first time. Modest investment now is needed to prevent even further wasted expenses in the future.