Question follow-through · 107561
Undocumented Migrants: Temporary Accommodation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department spent on (a) legal advice and (b) other support services for migrants who arrived in the UK illegally who are in accommodation by contract in 2025.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 21 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 26 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 30 Jan 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department spent on (a) legal advice and (b) other support services for migrants who arrived in the UK illegally who are in accommodation by contract in 2025.
26 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Jan 2026
Answer published
The Home Office does not hold the requested data on the provision of legal advice. Asylum seekers may be eligible for legal aid, which is administered by the Legal Aid Agency in the Ministry of Justice.Regarding other services, the Asylum Accommodation an...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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