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Written Question
Legal Aid Scheme: Immigration
Tuesday 20th June 2023

Asked by: Lord Bach (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask His Majesty's Government, in the past year, what proportion of immigration legal aid providers have (1) opened no new legal aid cases, and (2) opened no more than 30 new legal aid cases.

Answered by Lord Bellamy - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)

Between April 2022 and March 2023, 7% (11) of immigration legal aid providers opened no new cases and 15% (23) opened no more than 30 new cases.

In total there are 152 legal aid providers who hold a contract to provide immigration and asylum legal aid service. The above data reflects active immigration work reported between April 2022 and March 2023, inclusive.

The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) delivers services for immigration legal aid by Procurement Area and Access Point geographical area. These are procured and delivered at office level. A provider could therefore have opened over 30 new cases, spread across several office locations with varied levels of active immigration casework. There are no Procurement Areas in which no new immigration legal aid cases have been opened.

The LAA frequently reviews market capacity to make sure there is adequate provision of legal aid, in all categories of law, throughout England and Wales. The LAA moves quickly, where issues arise, to secure provision and to ensure demand for legal aid services is met across the country. Legal advice on a range of civil matters including housing, debt, discrimination, and education is available, wherever people are, through the Civil Legal Advice telephone service.

Written Question
Prisoners
Wednesday 24th April 2019

Asked by: Lord Bach (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their definition of “detainee dignity” in the context of people who are deprived of their liberty.

Answered by Lord Keen of Elie

The Ministry of Justice wants our prisons to be places where living conditions and behaviour towards others demonstrate our values of humanity, decency and respect as the basis for a culture of care and rehabilitation.