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Legal Aid Scheme: Undocumented Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of legal aid for irregular migrants in 2024.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
13 Feb 2025
Target answer date
24 Feb 2025
Answer
27 Feb 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 13 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of legal aid for irregular migrants in 2024.

  2. 24 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 27 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    Expenditure data for irregular migrants across all legal aid schemes is not held centrally.Where proceedings are before a court or tribunal in England or Wales, legal aid is available to individuals who qualify for services irrespective of their immigrati...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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