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-Jones
Expenditure 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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