Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 40616
Legal Aid Scheme: Asylum
Tabled: 24 March 2025
Answered: 1 April 2025
Question
Lee Anderson
Reform UK — Ashfield
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the total cost was of providing legal aid to asylum seekers in the last year.
Answer
Alex Davies-JonesExpenditure data for asylum seekers across all legal aid schemes is not held centrally.The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) does, however, publish information regarding legal aid expenditure as part of its official statistics on a quarterly basis, including the cos...
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