Question follow-through · 47948
Legal Aid Scheme: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average appeal waiting times are for legal aid cases by (a) represented and (b) unrepresented cases.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 24 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 2 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average appeal waiting times are for legal aid cases by (a) represented and (b) unrepresented cases.
30 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 May 2025
Answer published
The information requested is not held centrally. The unit cost of processing an application is not specifically tracked or recorded by the Legal Aid Agency (LAA), nor is the operating expenditure relating to exceptional case funding (ECF) recorded separat...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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