Question follow-through · 2893
Legal Aid Scheme: Foreign Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information her Department holds on the number of foreign nationals living overseas who were in receipt of (a) non-means and (b) non-merits tested legal aid in 2023.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 30 Aug 2024
- Target answer date
- 3 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 10 Sept 2024 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Aug 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information her Department holds on the number of foreign nationals living overseas who were in receipt of (a) non-means and (b) non-merits tested legal aid in 2023.
3 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Sept 2024
Answer published
This information requested is not held centrally.In making decisions about who qualifies for legal aid, the Legal Aid Agency must apply the provisions of the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012, and any regulations made under that Ac...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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