Written question asked by Paul Blomfield (Labour) on Monday, 6 February 2023, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 8 February 2023. It was answered by Mike Freer (Conservative) on Tuesday, 14 February 2023 on behalf of the Ministry of Justice.
Legal Aid Scheme: Asylum
- Question
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To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many requests for legal assistance made by asylum applicants during the first instance procedure in 2022 resulted in a grant of legal assistance.
- Answer
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Information about the total number of requests for this type of legal assistance is not held. Such assistance, where provided by legal aid, is funded under the ‘Legal Help’ scheme. Decisions about eligibility for this form of services are delegated to legal aid providers. As such, applications are not made directly to the Legal Aid Agency (LAA). Consequently, the LAA does not hold data regarding overall volumes of requests for assistance or the number of requests for assistance that are refused.
Secondary information
- Type
- Written question
- Reference
- 140136
- Session
- 2022-23
- Grouped for answer
- Yes
- Subjects
- Asylum Legal aid scheme
- Contains statistics
- Yes
- Link
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- 2023-02-14 10:44:37 +0000
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