Legal Aid Scheme: Asylum

(asked on 1st March 2021) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many requests for legal assistance were made by asylum applicants during the first instance procedure in 2019.


Answered by
Alex Chalk Portrait
Alex Chalk
Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice
This question was answered on 9th March 2021

Information on the total number requests for this type of legal assistance is not held. Such assistance when provided by legal aid is funded under the ‘Legal Help’ scheme, where the decision on whether or not to grant funding is taken by the legal aid provider, and hence refusals are not reported to the Legal Aid Agency.

The data on the number of grants in a particular time period for this type of legal aid not available, as this is not broken down to the level of detail required until a claim for payment is submitted.

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