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Deportation: Legal Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of legal aid support in deportation cases in the last 12 months.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
3 Sept 2025
Target answer date
8 Sept 2025
Answer
12 Sept 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 3 Sept 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of legal aid support in deportation cases in the last 12 months.

  2. 8 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 12 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    Expenditure relating to deportation and removal appeals is published as part of the Legal Aid Agency’s Official Statistics as part of its ‘detailed civil data’ collection. Due to the way information is recorded it is not possible to distinguish between co...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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