Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 72789
Legal Aid Scheme: Asylum
Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 8 September 2025
Question
Lewis Cocking
Conservative — Broxbourne
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost to the public purse was of providing legal aid to asylum seekers charged with criminal offences in the UK in the last year.
Answer
Sarah SackmanExpenditure data for asylum seekers across all legal aid schemes is not held centrally.